404 So. 2d 337 - Johnson v. Harrison’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 544 So. 2d 906 - United Services Auto. Ass'n v. Wade (1989), 567 So. 2d 1267 - Aldridge v. Dolbeer (1990)
26 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 Smith v. Richardson · Great American Insurance v. Railroad Furniture Salvage of Mobile, Inc. · 373 So. 2d 1054 - Vincent v. Blue Cross-Blue Shield of Alabama, Inc. · Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company v. Smith · Alabama Water Service Co. v. Wakefield
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he party claiming damages has the burden of establishing the existence of and amount of those damages by competent evidence. The award of damages cannot be made upon speculation, and the plaintiff has the burden of offering evidence tending to show to the required degree, the amount of damages actually suffered."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“may be relevant and admissible when it goes to a material issue in the case.”
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.