Lee v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably 835 So. 2d 137 - Patterson v. Gladwin Corp. (2002), 990 So. 2d 831 - Alabama Dept. of Transp. v. Harbert Intern., Inc. (2008)
2 federal appellate · 36 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 Southern Natural Gas Corp. v. Alabama · Parsons v. Liuza · State Ex Rel. St. Peter's M. Baptist Church v. Smith · State v. Southern Natural Gas Corporation · Ex Parte Waldrop
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our judgment, however, is that the legislative purpose disclosed in the act ... was to confer on said board jurisdiction over claims against the state, color-able legally and morally well grounded, not justiciable in the courts because of the state’s constitutional immunity from being made a defendant (Const. 1901, § H), and to exclude from its jurisdiction claims well grounded in law or equity, cognizable by the courts.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““[T]he jurisdiction of the Board of Adjustment is specifically limited to the consideration of the claims enumerated in subsection (a) of this section and no others; ... nothing contained in this subdivision shall be construed to confer jurisdiction upon the Board of Adjustment to settle or adjust any matter or claim of which the courts of this state have or had jurisdiction .... ””
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.