Ex Parte Johns’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

20 state decisions

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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “That section 2879 of the Code of Alabama be and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: 2879. When married women may appeal without giving bond or surety for costs. — From any judgment, order or decree of any court of record subjecting to sale or condemnation any property of or for the payment of money or the doing or performing any act by any married woman she is entitled to an appeal to the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals to revise such judgment, order or decree without giving security for the costs of appeal, on making affidavit that she is unable to give such security; and such appeal shall operate as a suspension and stay of all proceedings under such judgment order or decree until such appeal shall be determined by the Supreme Court or Court of Appeals.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 21 Ala. App. 1 - Brown v. Brown

2. “The basis of the statute's operation is a judgment or decree subjecting property or money of a married woman or requiring a married woman to do or perform some act.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 21 Ala. App. 1 - Brown v. Brown