45 Ala. App. 700 - Cunningham v. Lowery’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably Wilkinson v. Duncan (1975), 382 So. 2d 7 - Century Plaza Co. v. Hibbett Sporting Goods, Inc. (1980)
35 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 Paris v. Buckner Feed Mill, Inc. · Bertolla v. Kaiser · W. P. Brown & Sons Lumber Co. v. Rattray · Johnson v. State · Denson v. Kirkpatrick Drilling Co.
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 error for the trial court to leave the jury ... without instructions as to the proper measure of damages to be used in arriving at its verdict. Russell v. Thomas, 278 Ala. 400 , 178 So.2d 556 [(Ala. 1965)].”
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.