Curry v. Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1940
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably State v. Wertheimer Bag Co. (1949), Champion v. McLean (1957)
30 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 Bowman v. State Tax Commission · State v. . Kennerly · Trustees of Rochester v. Pettinger
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In considering the' exemption feature of the statute we should bear in mind the universally recognized rule that taxation is the rule'and exemption the exception and that the legislative intent to release property from its just proportion of the public burden 'ought to be expressed in clear and unambiguous terms; it ought not to be deduced from language of doubtful import.’ * * *” (Emphasis supplied.) Curry v. Reeves, 240 Ala. 14, 15 , 195 So. 428, 430 .”
2 later decisions 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.