Kendrick v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently September 1985 · most notably Wilkins v. Woolf (1968), Rogers v. City of Mobile (1964)
2 federal appellate · 48 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 Ballentyne v. Wickersham · Ex parte Pollard · Lindsay v. United States Savings & Loan Ass'n · Dearborn v. Johnson · Newton v. City of Tuscaloosa
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““To be sure, the question posed could be a somewhat debatable one were we to enforce with hypercritical exactness the said constitutional prescription [§ 45]; but the rule is to the contrary. The court is committed to the principle that this requirement of the Constitution is ‘not to be exactingly enforced or in such manner as to cripple legislation,’ but should be accorded a liberal interpretation.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““ * * * Each law shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in its title * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"In line with this premise, the law has become established that when there is a fair expression of the general subject of the act in its title, all matters reasonably related to it, including all necessary agencies or instrumentalities which should facilitate the act's execution, are proper to be included as being cognate and germane to the title. We had occasion to deal with this specific question at some length in Newton v. City of Tuscaloosa , [ 251 Ala. 209 , 36 So.2d 487 ], and with reference thereto pointed out, inter alia , (1) the liberal interpretation rule to be accorded this constitutional mandate; (2) that the subject of the act may be expressed in general terms and when so, everything subsumed under the general thought to make it a complete act, if cognate and germane thereto, is regarded as included in and authorized by it; (3) generality or comprehensiveness of the subject of the act is not a violation of the constitutional provision requiring that an act shall contain but one subject, which shall be clearly expressed in the title, a broad comprehensive subject justifying the inclusion of any matter except that which is incongruous or unconnected with the subject, provided the title is not uncertain or misleading; (4) the title of an act need not be an index to it, nor need it catalogue all powers intended to be bestowed."”
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.