414 So. 2d 102 - Smith v. Capps’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently June 2007
6 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 Bell v. Driskill · 52 Ala. App. 57 - Unexcelled Manufacturing Corp. v. Ragland · 50 Ala. App. 251 - Dale Motels, Inc. v. Crittenden · 370 So. 2d 297 - REALTY GROWTH INV. v. Commercial & Indus. Bank · 57 Ala. App. 297 - Patterson v. Whitten
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“But in recent years there has developed such a strong trend in the opposite direction that one might now, with equal justification, say that the field is dominated by the view that schedule allowances should not be deemed exclusive, ... [where] the issue is .. . treatment of any scheduled loss as a partial or total disability of the body as a whole.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[U]nder the evidence as to Capps' lack of education, his retardation and work history and present lack of capabilities, the trial court could have legitimately concluded that the injury caused an abnormal and unusual incapacity, the second alternative contained in the [Bell] rule.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“or the injury causes an abnormal and unusual incapacity with respect to the member.”
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.