Birmingham Electric Co. v. Allen’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently March 2001
8 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 Grand Trunk Western Railway Company v. City of South Bend · City of Birmingham v. Louisville N. R. Co. · City of Montgomery v. Orpheum Taxi Co. · Birmingham Interurban Taxicab Service Corp. v. McLendon · State ex rel. Grinsfelder v. Spokane Street-Railway 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . . The subsequent section 9814 of the Code (§ 20, Title 48, Code 1940) expressly provides that nothing contained in such article of the Code shall be construed as a limitation or restriction upon the police jurisdiction or power of municipalities over their streets or highways, or the power of such municipalities 'to adopt and enforce reasonable police regulations and ordinances in the interest of the public safety, morals and convenience.’ Properly construed, as previously stated, the city authorities acted in the exercise of their police power in the general' regulation of traffic in the city, and, an exercise of legislative discretion, over which the Public Service Commission has no control. * * * ” (Par. Added.) [ 217 Ala. at page 610 , 117 So. at page 202 ]”
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.