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← 243 Ala. 184 - Ex Parte Kelly

Ex Parte Kelly’s Empirical Analysis

1942

Citation profile

45
cited by 45 later decisions
1
states following
February 2015
most recently cited

45 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably Ex Parte Terry (2006), Garrison v. Kelly (1952)

45 state decisions

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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 In Re Opinions of the Justices · State ex rel. Vandiver v. Burke · State ex rel. Winter v. Sayre · Rensford v. Magnus & Co. · Ex Parte Farrow

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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “`[t]he effect of the decree appealed from — remanding the administration of the estate to the probate court”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “when the petition for the appointment of an administrator was filed in the probate court, and that court assumed jurisdiction, appointing the administrator, this constituted it a pending administration subject to removal to the court of equity.”
    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.