Grayson v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 1992
8 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Cobb v. Malone · Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway v. Crosby · Yarbrough v. Mallory · Alabama Power Company v. Mosley · Alabama Great Southern R. Co. v. Randle
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Where damages awarded by a jury are challenged on grounds of inadequacy, an appellate court will reverse only where, after a consideration of all reasonable presumptions in favor of its correctness, the preponderance of the evidence against the verdict is so decided as to clearly convince the court that it is wrong and unjust. This standard, first enunciated in Cobb v. Malone Collins , 92 Ala. 630 , 9 So. 738 (1890), has been followed in a long line of decisions. This presumption in favor of the correctness of the jury verdict is strengthened when the trial court refuses to grant a new trial. Cf. Prescott v. Martin , Ala., 331 So.2d 240 (1976); Alabama Power Co. v. Mosley , 294 Ala. 394 , 318 So.2d 260 (1975)."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.