491 So. 2d 962 - Lowe v. Walters’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 2003 · most notably Ex Parte Southern Energy Homes, Inc. (2003), 678 So. 2d 181 - Dun & Bradstreet Corp. v. Jones (1996)
28 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 Allen v. Diversified Products · Carroll Const. Co., Inc. v. Hutcheson · 435 So. 2d 1301 - Ashland Chemical Co. v. Watkins · Padgett v. International Paper Co. · Lawler Mobile Homes v. Hinkle
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]estimony and other evidence which show the severity of the employee's injury, the number of physicians he consulted, and the different treatments he required are themselves evidence of the reasonable necessity of the expenses related by the bills.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Ala. Code (1975), § 25-5-77 (a), requires the employer to pay the actual cost of reasonably necessary medical and surgical treatment, physical rehabilitation, and medicine.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If there [was] any legal evidence that supports the findings of the trial court, this Court [would] affirm those findings.”
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.