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1988

Citation profile

12
cited by 12 later decisions
3
states following
December 2017
most recently cited

11 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 2017

11 state decisions

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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.

  1. “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 passage
  2. “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 passage
  3. “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.