Ex parte Tower Manufacturing Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1893
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2003 · most notably Dowdle v. Aurora Loan Services, Inc. (2003), Brady v. Brady (1905)
52 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 Ravisies v. Stoddart & Co. · Ex parte Garland · Ex parte Barnes · Reynolds v. Crook · Cahalan v. Monroe, Smaltz & 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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * The practice of applying by motion, entered here on the motion docket, of which notice is given to the parties in adverse interest, has prevailed too long now to be departed from, however informal it may seem. Ex parte Garland (Opinion of Walker, C. J.) 42 Ala. 559 .” Ex parte Tower Manufacturing Co., et al., 103 Ala. 415, 417 , 15 So. 836 ;”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Grigsby v. Liles““ . . . During its pendency [the appeals], there could be alienations of the estate of the defendant, the subject of levy and sale, to the irreparable injury of the complainants. . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The decree of the city court is an ordinary decree for the recovery of money, affecting and binding * * * personally.”
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.