Greer v. Heyer’s Empirical Analysis
1927
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently April 1973 · most notably Williams v. Wicker (1938), T. R. Miller Mill Co. v. Ralls (1966)
44 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 Shipp v. Shelton · Ex Parte Rosenblum · Liverpool London Globe Ins. Co. v. Lowe · Ex Parte Margart · Childers v. Samoset Cotton Mills
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The established construction of the statute is that the motion must be filed within 30 days, and if not heard within that time must be continued by a special order, or successive orders of continuance made within the time fixed by former orders. (Citations omitted.)” Greer v. Heyer, 216 Ala. 229, 230 , 113 So. 14 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Moore v. Ashe
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.