Brooks v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on McNeil v. Munson S. S. Lines · Kendrick v. BIRMINGHNA SOUTHERN R. CO. · Coleman v. Hamilton Storage Co. · Sington v. Birmingham Ry., Light & Power Co. · Lambert v. Birmingham Electric 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 1 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`the jury verdict absolved the defendants of wantonness, because, as previously noted, the facts relied on to prove each count were the same.'”
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.