40 Ala. App. 62 - Madison v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2008 · most notably Malone v. State (1984), 41 Ala. App. 54 - White v. State (1960)
44 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 Lindsey v. Barton · 37 Ala. App. 656 - McMurtrey v. State · 35 Ala. App. 71 - Head v. State · 34 Ala. App. 35 - Ledbetter v. State · Mayberry v. State
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““These decisions clearly show that it is the manner of the operation of the automobile which determines the guilt of the driver. “In the absence of evidence tending to show some causal connection between the manner of driving proximately causing deceased’s death and defendant’s possession or lack of possession of a driver’s license, we are of opinion objections to the questions quoted above were improperly overruled.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““By the weight of authority and the better reasoning as we see it, under the facts here presented, evidence that the driver was not licensed as required by statute is inadmissible unless there is some causal relationship between the injuries and the failure to have a license.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Stanford v. State“With or without a license, the manner of driving is not affected.”
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.