Holmes v. Sanders’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently May 2011
6 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
Applies 45 U.S.C. § 51 (Federal Employers' Liability Act) · 45 U.S.C. § 59 (Federal Employers' Liability Act)
Relies on St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Co. v. Craft · American Railroad Company of Porto Rico v. Ann Elizabeth Birch · Beasley v. MacDonald Engineering Co. · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Leslie · Reed v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Nothing in § 30-2-8.1 , Ala. Code 1975, indicates the Legislature intended to abrogate the common-law rule of abatement. `If the legislature had intended to so act, that body would have made its intention evident and unmistakable.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“An attorney has authority to bind his client, in any action or proceeding, by any agreement in relation to such case, made in writing, or by an entry to be made on the minutes of the court.”
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.