Leonard v. TALBERT’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2017
9 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 County Commissioners v. City of Jacksonville · Lillard v. Melton · Board of Revenue of Jefferson Co. v. State ex rel. City of Birmingham · Sanderson v. Texarkana · City of Breckenridge v. Stephens County
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Subject to constitutional limitations, the state has absolute control of the highways, including streets, within its borders, even though the fee is in the municipality. Such power of su * pervision and control may be exercised directly by the legislature or may be delegated by it to subordinate or local governmental agencies....”
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.