Abrasley v. Jefferson County’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2006
19 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 Brown v. Gay-Padgett Hdw. Co. · McCall v. Automatic Voting MacH. Corporation · Jefferson County v. State Ex Rel. Carmichael · Wharton v. Knight
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The Voting Machine Amendment to the Constitution, see, Act of March 31, 1939, Special Session of 1939, page 20 [Amendment XLI], in no respect places an obligation on a county which is a limitation on section 224, Constitution. The purpose of that amendment was to grant authority to the legislature, by general or local law, to permit the use of voting machines. It was evidently the result of the decision of this Court in McCall v. Automatic Voting Machine Corp., 236 Ala. 10 , 180 So. 695 . This amendment is not self-acting, but requires an enabling act or acts. It is not mandatory, but grants merely authority to the legislature so as to relieve the election law of the necessity of uniformity throughout the State in this respect. Its whole tenor is one of subservience to constitutional limitations in all other respects. The legislature has a wide discretion, but it is to be exercised within constitutional requirements. * * * ” (Emphasis added) ( 241 Ala. 665 , 4 So.2d 157 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duncan v. Meeks“the *Page 477 obligation to pay more money than can be supplied by current funds, or by current revenues provided by lawful taxation for the fiscal year.”
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.