Ex parte Bozeman’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Gavin v. State (2003), Alabama Industrial Bank v. State Ex Rel. C. E. Avinger (1970)
54 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 City of Birmingham v. Southern Express Co. · State ex rel. City of Mobile v. Board of R. & R. Com. · Bozeman v. State · State ex rel. Little v. Foster · Holt v. Mayor of Birmingham
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“That body having passed the act, the law presumes that the judgment of the Legislature was that the act was constitutional. This judgment of the Legislature, while not conclusive upon the courts, is entitled to, and under the above rule must receive, great weight at the hands of the courts. It is a solemn thing for a court to strike down a statute, and when it does so its reason therefor should be clear and strong and should lead to the irresistible conclusion that the act is invalid.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The Legislature shall not enact any law which will permit any person, firm, corporation, or association to pay a privilege, license, or other tax to the state of Alabama, and relieve him or it from the payment of all other privilege and license taxes in the state.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“If the municipalities had no such constitutional right or power to so levy and collect such taxes, and the provision [meaning, as we understand, section 221 of the Constitution] did not confer such right, then the provision in question would be wholly nugatory.”
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.