Cherokee County v. Cunningham’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 2015 · most notably Tiger Motor Co. v. McMurtry (1969), Bryant v. Moss (1976)
43 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 City of Birmingham v. Southern Express Co. · Alabama Public Service Commission v. Mobile Gas Co. · Shepherd v. Sartain · Miller v. State Ex Rel. Peek · State v. Tuscaloosa Building & Loan Ass'n
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The interpretation by the Attorney General and popular interpretation as exemplified in practice for a number of . years will be given weight ,as a factor in judicial construction of a statute. where its meaning is doubtful. (Citing cases). * * * ””
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.