41 Ala. App. 137 - Chappell v. Boykin’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Sessions v. Jack Cole Company (1963), Edgar T. Weekes v. Atlantic National Ins. Co., California State Auto Association v. Atlantic National Ins. Co., Atlantic National Ins. Co. v. California State Auto Association (1966)
2 federal appellate · 27 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 Cassidy v. Berkovitz · Louisville Bridge Co. v. L. & N. R. R. · Georgia Railway & Power Co. v. Endsley · Birmingham Southern Railway Co. v. Lintner · Wilkes v. Hood
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a `cause of action' grows out of the wrongful act, and not the various forms of damages that may flow from the single wrongful act.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“for injury or damages to the property ... resulting from the same wrongful act, omission or negligence which caused the death,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The rule prohibiting splitting the cause of action being primarily for the benefit of the defendant may be waived by him.”
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.