Norris v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 2017
1 federal appellate · 7 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 Elston v. Industrial Lift Truck Co. · Alabama Great Southern Railroad v. Carroll · Derossett v. Burgher · Dawson v. Dawson · Harris Corp. v. Comair, Inc.
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[u]nder [lex loci delicti], an Alabama court will determine the substantive rights of an injured party according to the law of the state where the injury occurred.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the [workers'] compensation context where an injured employee . . . elect[s] to accept benefits under the [workers'] compensation act of his state of employment and not the state where the injury occurred.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“It is well settled that the traditional conflict rule of lex loci delicti applies to tort actions brought in this jurisdiction.”
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.