State Supreme Court / Ala.

Ex Parte Trinity Industries, Inc.

Decided May 3, 1996. Alva Hugh Maddox wrote the opinion for the court.

680 So. 2d 262 · Cited 428 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

City of Tuscaloosa v. Howard · 318 So. 2d 729
Southern Cotton Oil Company v. Wynn · 96 So. 2d 159
Pow v. Southern Const. Co. · 180 So. 288
Gulf States Steel Co. v. Christison · 154 So. 565
Ex Parte Price · 555 So. 2d 1060
Reynolds Metals Company v. Gray · 178 So. 2d 87
Trinity Industries, Inc. v. Cunningham · 680 So. 2d 253
Pullman-Standard Car Mfg. Co. v. Lively · 196 So. 870
West v. Founders Life Assur. Co. of Florida · 547 So. 2d 870
Coday v. WILLAMETTE TUG & BARGE COMPANY · 440 P.2d 224
Alabama Textile Products Corporation v. Grantham · 82 So. 2d 204
BF Goodrich Company v. Martin · 253 So. 2d 37
Wooten v. Roden · 71 So. 2d 802
Ex Parte Moncrief · 627 So. 2d 385
Southern Cotton Oil Co. v. Bruce · 32 So. 2d 666
DeSchaaf v. Indus. Com'n of Ariz. · 686 P.2d 1288
Hardisty v. Woodward Iron Co. · 107 So. 837
Jones v. Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. · 130 So. 74
Foster v. Continental Gin Company · 74 So. 2d 474
Pitsch v. Department of Industry, Labor & Human Relations · 176 N.W.2d 390
Kostamo v. Marquette Iron Mining Co. · 274 N.W.2d 441
Allen v. Industrial Commission · 729 P.2d 15
Whitsett v. BAMSI, Inc. · 652 So. 2d 287
Campbell v. Williams · 638 So. 2d 804
Hammons v. Roses Stores, Inc. · 547 So. 2d 883

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