Dewrell v. Kearley’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently May 2002 · most notably Southern Canal Co. v. State Board of Water Engineers (1958), Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. v. Public Utility Commission (1978)
33 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 Savage v. Wallace · Opinion by the Justices · Standard Oil Co. v. State · In Re Opinion of the Justices · 31 Ala. App. 17 - Carter v. State
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is a well recognized rule of law that in the enactment of statutes reasonable precision is required. Indeed, one of the prime requisites of any statute is certainty, and legislative enactment may be declared by the courts to be inoperative and void for uncertainty in meaning. This power of the court may be exercised where the statute is so incomplete, so conflicting or so vague and indefinite, that the statute cannot be executed and the court is unable by the application of law and accepted rules of construction to determine what the legislature intended by any reasonable degree of certainty. Many illustrative cases are cited in the note to the text 50 Am.Jur. § 472. Like observations are to be found in 59 C.J. 601." (Emphasis ours)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Masters v. Pruce“"The inconsistencies are quite manifest. While this maximum of forty days is allowed for the filing and settling of the objections after the transcript has been filed, the reporter may file the transcript at any time within the ninety-day period, yet the entire procedure must be completed within the same ninety days. This under [sic] conditions would be impossible of execution."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Masters v. Pruce“"* * * by these several inharmonious provisions, the act is rendered impossible of execution, of consequence of which it becomes our duty, though we regret the necessity of so doing, to declare it inoperative and void. * * *"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Masters v. Pruce
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.