628 So. 2d 490 - Latham v. Redding’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2016
5 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 547 So. 2d 870 - West v. Founders Life Assur. Co. of Florida · 543 So. 2d 686 - Berner v. Caldwell · 572 So. 2d 403 - Specialty Container Manufacturing, Inc. v. Rusken Packaging, Inc. · Williams v. Wicker · 607 So. 2d 199 - Graveman v. Wind Drift Owners' Ass'n, Inc.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[i]t is axiomatic that proof of negligence requires the establishment of a breach of a duty flowing from the defendant to the plaintiff which proximately causes damage to the plaintiff. Sloss-Sheffield Steel Iron Co. v. Allred , 247 Ala. 499 , 25 So.2d 179 (1945); Williams v. Wicker , 235 Ala. 348 , 179 So. 250 (1938).' Thompson v. Lee , 439 So.2d 113 , 115 (Ala. 1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“also subsumed the evidentiary matters at issue in the pending motion to dismiss”
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.