Carter v. Chambers’s Empirical Analysis
1885
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Mobile City Lines, Inc. v. Proctor (1961), Alabama Power Co. v. Talmadge (1921)
59 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 State v. Manchester & Lawrence Railroad · Robinson v. Western Pacific Railroad · Tanner's v. Louisville & Nashville Railroad · Hodges Bros. v. Coleman & Carroll · Carroll v. . Staten Island R.R. Co.
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the trial of most issues the real contention is not over every question of law or fact that is involved directly or incidentally. The contestants are usually agreed on many questions — frequently very important questions. These become the incident — an indispensable incident — in the cause; but they are not the real subject of contestation. They are material facts, but they are not disputed facts. If the trial judge, in giving his charge to the jury, were required to state all such noneon-tested facts in the form of 'hypothesis, his charges would frequently become cumbersome and confusing, if not misleading.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““There is a rule, and a just one, that if a party has a witness possessing peculiar knowledge of the transaction, and supposed to be favorable to him, and fails to produce such witness when he has the means of doing so, this, in the absence of all explanation, is ground of suspicion against him that such better informed testimony would make against him.” Carter v. Chambers, 79 Ala. 223, 231 .”
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.