State ex rel. Knox v. Dillard’s Empirical Analysis
1916
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently March 1991 · most notably 50 Ala. App. 227 - Thomas v. State (1973), Orr v. Orr (1979)
55 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 ex rel. Crumpton v. Montgomery · Montgomery v. State ex rel. Enslen · Beauvoir Club v. State · Ham v. State ex rel. Buck · Fitzpatrick v. State
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The [original] petition under consideration brought into question the constitutional validity of the act . . . , but the reasons therein assigned for the assertion of its invalidity were not good . . . since the general allegation of the unconstitutionality of the act was efficient to invoke and to have justified a ruling, if made, of the court below that the act was invalid, not for a reason alleged, but on a ground or for a reason not particularly specified in the petition, the judgment now rendered cannot be affirmed here when, even for the first time on application for rehearing, the complaining party has fully met the burden of advising the court of the particular well-founded reason or ground for declaring the act invalid. . . ." (State ex rel. Knox v. Dillard, supra , 196 Ala. at 549 , 72 So. at 60 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage““Where the determination by this court of questions involving matters of public concern cannot be had without the consideration and decision of the constitutional validity of enactments, this court must, in the discharge of its grave duty in that regard, take account of such questions, whether raised or argued in the lower courts or not, and decide them, provided the complaining party manifests his good faith and diligence by affording the essential data to advise the court in the premises and to relieve it of the burden of itself making a search of the journals to ascertain the true status of the subject of his complaint. . . .” ( 196 Ala. at 549 , 72 So. at 60 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"[T]his court would be placed in the wholly indefensible attitude of affirming a judgment that this court now is brought to know cannot be sustained because the essential basis thereof is an enactment that never became a law. . . ." ( 196 Ala. at 549 , 72 So. at 60 )”
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.