83 So. 2d 717 - Ex Parte Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently April 2014 · most notably 652 So. 2d 287 - Whitsett v. BAMSI, Inc. (1994), 50 Ala. App. 684 - Grant v. City of Mobile (1973)
1 federal appellate · 40 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 Consolidated Edison Co of New York v. National Labor Relations Board · National Labor Relations Board v. Columbian Enameling & Stamping Co. · Mississippi Valley Barge Line Co. v. United States · North Alabama Motor Express, Inc. v. Rookis · Ex Parte Darnell
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"Petitioner next contends that his rights have been substantially and materially prejudiced by the Board taking testimony of an alleged expert concerning his findings from [p]olygraph tests performed on petitioner. We think the circuit court adequately answered this argument when it found that while the testimony might not be legal evidence, its admission was not reversible error because the Board is not bound by technical rules of evidence. In the absence of statutory provisions, the Board has seen fit to adopt its own rules, one of which specifically applies to evidence, viz., Rule No. X, subsec. 10.5: "'. . . The Board shall not be bound by the technical rules of evidence but *Page 747 shall seek diligently all of the information and evidence bearing on the case.'[ 2 ] "The adoption of such rules was within the prerogative of the Board. 42 Am.Jur., § 129, p. 460. "Moreover, since the Board is not composed of those learned in the law, we are unwilling to reverse because of indiscretion in admitting some illegal evidence. This view conforms to our holding as to a somewhat similar quasi-judicial body, the Public Service Commission, in North Alabama Motor Express v. Rookis , 244 Ala. 137 , 12 So.2d 183 [(1943)]."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““ * * * The decision of the board based upon all proceedings before the board shall be final subject to appeal by either party to the circuit court to review questions of law and the question of whether or not the decision or order of the board is supported by the substantial and legal evidence. On such appeal the circuit court shall review the record and shall affirm, reverse, remand or render said cause. ‡ ^ # »”
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.