47 Ala. App. 352 - Parker v. Sutton’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Ray Hughes Chevrolet, Inc. v. Gordon (1975), Shook Fletcher Insulation Company v. Central Rigging & Contracting Corporation (1982)
24 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 Roan v. Smith · Grandquest v. Williams · Ala. Great Southern Railroad v. Frazier · Sheffield Co. v. Harris · Austin v. Tennessee Biscuit 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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To such compensatory damages [awardable in a conversion case] the jury may add punitive damages if the trespass or conversion was willful, fraudulent, done in known violation of law or attended with circumstance of malice, insult or disregard of the rights or interest of the mortgagor [plaintiff].”; citing Roan v. Smith, supra; Russell-Vaughn Ford, Inc., supra.”
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.