534 So. 2d 585 - Gallups v. Cotter’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2017
11 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 American Road Serv. Co. v. Inmon · 409 So. 2d 784 - Ryan v. Charles Townsend Ford, Inc. · 475 So. 2d 539 - Turner v. Systems Fuel, Inc. · Commonwealth v. Golston · Osborn v. Johns
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person who acts in accordance with the terms of [the ADDA] is not liable for damages in any civil action or subject to prosecution in any criminal proceeding for his act.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ziade v. Koch“The [pre-ADDA version of Alabama's determination-of-death] statute . . . clearly contemplates the termination of life support systems upon a determination of death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ziade v. Koch“An increasing number of states have adopted this so-called 'Harvard' definition of brain death, either by statute or court decision.”
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.