State v. Bridges’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 district · 37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently January 2014 · most notably State v. Calumet & Hecla Consol. Copper Co. (1953), Champion v. McLean (1957)
2 district · 37 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 Philadelphia v. Barber · State ex rel. Spillers v. Johnston · Fitterer v. Crawford · Washburn College v. Comm'rs of Shawnee Co. · Board of Home Missions & Church Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church v. Philadelphia
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The "universal rule of construction is that exemptions from taxation, whether statutory or constitutional, are to be strictly construed, against the exemption and in favor of the right to tax, and that no person or property is to be exempted unless the intention to exempt such person or property clearly appears in some statute or constitutional provision.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The legislature shall not tax the property, real or personal, of the state, counties, or other municipal corporations, or cemeteries; nor lots in incorporated cities and towns, or within one mile of any city or town to the extent of one acre, nor lots one mile or more distant from such cities or towns to the extent of five acres, with the buildings thereon, when same are used exclusively for religious worship, for schools, or for purposes purely charitable. "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A synonym for the word `exclusive' is the word `sole.' Webster's New International Dictionary. * * *" State v. Bridges, 246 Ala. 486, 491 , 21 So.2d 316, 319 .”
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.