414 So. 2d 77 - Dent v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2001
5 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 Loveless v. Graddick · Berry v. City of New York Ins. Co. · O'BARR v. Feist · Kenney v. Gurley · Russell v. Hayden
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.
“"`". . . may be shown by evidence of previous ill will, hostility, threats, rivalry, other actions, former libels or slanders, and the like, emanating from the defendant, or by the violence of the defendant's language, the mode and extent of publication, and the like.'" "`Kenney v. Gurley , 208 Ala. 623 at 626, 95 So. 34 at 37.' "Willis v. Demopolis Nursing Home, Inc. , 336 So.2d 1117 , at 1120 (Ala. 1976)."”
2 later decisions 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.