439 So. 2d 113 - Thompson v. Lee’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 642 So. 2d 411 - Townsend v. General Motors Corp. (1994), 533 So. 2d 602 - Perry v. Mobile County (1988)
34 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 Donald v. City National Bank of Dothan · 395 So. 2d 991 - Sears, Roebuck & Co., Inc. v. Haven Hills Farm, Inc. · Williams v. Wicker · Williams v. Palmer · Mobile Press Register, Inc. v. Padgett
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[i]t is axiomatic that proof of negligence requires the establishment of a breach of a duty flowing from the defendant to the plaintiff which proximately causes damage to the plaintiff. Sloss-Sheffield Steel Iron Co. v. Allred , 247 Ala. 499 , 25 So.2d 179 (1945); Williams v. Wicker , 235 Ala. 348 , 179 So. 250 (1938).' Thompson v. Lee , 439 So.2d 113 , 115 (Ala. 1983).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Evidence which affords nothing more than speculation, conjecture, or guess is *Page 85 wholly insufficient to warrant submission of a case to the jury.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"One can infer negligence from the injury itself only in the rare circumstance where the instrumentality causing the injury is in the defendant's exclusive possession and the injury would not have occurred absent negligence."”
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.