461 So. 2d 793 - White v. Fridge’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2018
20 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 Vest v. Gay · Airheart v. Green · Jacks v. City of Birmingham · Central of Georgia Railway Company v. Steed · Walker v. Henderson
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'while inherent in order to prevent irreparable injustice, is a power hesitantly exercised because of the solemnity of a jury verdict regarded in the background of that most precious of rights, the right of a trial by jury.' Walker v. Henderson , 275 Ala. 541 , 544 , 156 So.2d 633 , 636 (1963).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“clearly appears that the jury's verdict is so excessive as to indicate that it is the result of 'bias, passion, prejudice or other improper motive' or 'some mistaken view of the merits of the case. . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Peete v. Blackwell
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.