Craig v. Root’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
121 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 121 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably Ex Parte Smith (1983), City of Huntsville v. Miller (1958)
121 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 Keenum v. Dodson · Ussery v. Darrow · James v. James · First Nat. Bank v. McIntosh · Shepherd v. Kendrick
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 121 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]ere delay that has resulted in no disadvantage to another or that has not operated to bring about changes of conditions and circumstances in consequence of which, “there can be no longer a safe determination of the controversy,” will not serve to bar a complainant’s right or remedy. . . . [Craig v. Root, 247 Ala. 479 , 25 So.2d 147 (1946).]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * The property here involved was occupied as a homestead by decedent at the time of his death and was all of the real estate which he owned in this state at that time; it did not exceed in area or value the exemption allowed by law. Therefore, the appellee took a life estate without the necessity of any act on her part. The law intervenes and makes an allotment in such cases. Cox v. McLemore, 236 Ala. 559 , 183 So. 860 ; Franklin v. Scott, 227 Ala. 101 , 148 So. 833 . * * * ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““ * * * a void decree will not support an appeal; this court can acquire no jurisdiction on such an appeal even by consent of parties; it must take notice of its own want of jurisdiction apparent on the record. * * *” Craig v. Root, 247 Ala. 479, 484 , 25 So.2d 147, 152 ; 2 Ala. Digest, Appeal and Error, 23, and authorities there cited.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.