Springer v. State Ex Rel. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1934
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State (1981), Wilkins v. Woolf (1968)
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 State ex rel. Crumpton v. Montgomery · City of San Antonio v. Berry · Williams v. Schwarz · State v. Galveston, Harrisburg & San Antonio Railway Co. · State ex rel. Clarke v. Carter
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question of paramount and controlling importance in the case is, if the invalid part of the act is deleted from the act, does it leave an act complete, sensible, and capable of being executed? If the act thus deleted of the invalid part is competent to stand without the invalid part, and leaves an enactment complete within itself, sensible, and capable of being executed, it will stand, unless the two parts—the valid and invalid—are so inseparable as to raise the presumption that the Legislature would not have enacted the one without the other. State [ex rel. Clarke] v. Carter, 174 Ala. 266 , 56 So. 974, 977 ; Union Bank & Trust Co. v. Blan, State Treas., supra, [ 229 Ala. 180 , 155 So. 612 ]; Harper v. State, 109 Ala. 28 , 19 So. 857 .””
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.