57 Ala. App. 352 - LaPoint v. Barton’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 2017
10 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 Mobile Liners, Inc. v. McConnell · 52 Ala. App. 565 - Defense Ordinance Corporation v. England · 52 Ala. App. 52 - Avondale Mills, Inc. v. Tollison · Lingo v. Crews
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The term does not mean constant employment of the requisite number of persons, but rather is a function of the frequency, regularity, and duration of the occurrences in which that number is employed. Lingo v. Crews, 253 Ala. 227 , 43 So.2d 815 ; Mobile Liners v. McConnell, 220 Ala. 562 , 126 So. 626 ; Larson, The Law of Workmen’s Compensation, § 52.20. What is decisive is the ‘... established mode or plan in the operation of the business.... ’ Mobile Liners v. McConnell, 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.