Hanson v. Couch’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2016 · most notably 405 So. 2d 1 - Chavers v. National SEC. Fire & Cas. Co. (1981), Eidson v. Olin Corp. (1988)
43 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 A. A. Spurlin, Surviving Parent of Douglas J. Spurlin, a Minor, Deceased v. General Motors Corporation · Birwood Paper Company v. Damsky · Gulsby v. Louisville & Nashville R. R. · 348 So. 2d 484 - S.S. Kresge Co. v. Ruby · Key v. Dozier
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict tests the sufficiency of the evidence in the same way as does the motion for directed verdict at the close of all the evidence. Ala.R.Civ.P. 50, Committee Comments. Granting the motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict says, without weighing the credibility of the evidence, there can be but one reasonable conclusion from the evidence as to the proper judgment. 5A Moore's Federal Practice ¶ 50.07[2], at p. 50-76.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[S]uch a state of facts in the mind of the prosecutor as would lead a man of ordinary caution and prudence to believe or entertain an honest and strong suspicion that the person arrested is guilty.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"It is well settled in this state that advice of counsel, honestly sought and acted on in good faith, supplies an indispensable element of probable cause for legal action and is a complete defense to an action for malicious prosecution. Birwood Paper Co. v. Damsky , 285 Ala. 127 , 229 So.2d 514 (1969); Broussard v. Brown , 353 So.2d 804 (Ala.Civ.App. 1978)."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.