Carnley v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 1990
24 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 Ensley v. Simpson · Birmingham Electric Co. v. Harry · Brandon v. Askew · Tayloe v. Davis · Jackson v. Sherrod
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The act was local in its application and within the purview of section 106 of the Constitution. Was it published or posted as required by the organic law `at least once a week for four consecutive weeks,' etc.? The bill was introduced in the Senate on August 19, 1927, and the notice given was by publication in the newspaper of that county on July 29th, August 5th, August 12th, and August 19th, of the year 1927. It is insisted that the notice given was `for four consecutive weeks in the county ... prior to the introduction of the bill,' as required of a local law. Lower v. State, 3 Ala.App. 122 , 57 So. 500 ; Ex parte Lower, 178 Ala. 87, 93 , 59 So. 611 ; Ensley v. Simpson, 166 Ala. 366 , 52 So. 61 [1909]. "The decision in the Lower Case was to the effect that the word `a' in the clause of the Constitution here pertinent is used in the sense of `in each' week, so that, when such notice was published in a newspaper or posted (as the facts warranted) once a week in each of four consecutive weeks, between the first publication and the introduction of the bill, the constitutional requirement was compiled with, although 28 days had not intervened. Our cases on the subject are collected in 40 L.R.A. (N.S.) 28. There is no evidence of the time of the day when the publication of the Enterprise Ledger was accomplished on August 19, 1927; the affidavit of the publisher as a part of the Senate Journal is uncontradicted that such was the accomplished fact when the bill was introduced in ”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“prior to the date of introduction of the bill”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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