Ex parte Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 1973
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Dunklin v. Wilson · Chastain & Lawrence v. Armstrong
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The petition was fatally defective, * * * It failed to show that the petitioners, as defendants in the original suit, had a good and meritorious defense to the action. The averment of this general conclusion was totally insufficient. The facts constituting the supposed defense must be stated, so that the court may judge of their sufficiency. Dunklin v. Wilson, 64 Ala. 162 . . . . ( 40 Ala.App. at 665 , 120 So. at 923, 924)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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