Rollings v. Marshall County’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2006
8 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 Miller v. Marx · Hagan v. Commissioner's Court · Standard Oil Co. of Kentucky v. Limestone County · Littlejohn v. Littlejohn · In Re Opinions of the Justices
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““This Court held in Hagan v. Commissioner’s Court of Limestone County, 160 Ala. 544 , 49 So. 417 , 37 L.R.A.,N.S., 1027, that the levy of a special tax under the second proviso of section 215, supra, as authorized by section 186, Title 12, Code, and the issuance of warrants payable out of such revenue in future years for the purposes there specified, constitute a debt within the meaning of sections 215 and 224, supra. So that a county which has reached its debt limit under section 224 cannot avail of the second proviso of section 215. Southern Ry. Co. v. Jackson County, supra [ 189 Ala. 436 , 66 So. 570 ]; Littlejohn v. Littlejohn, supra [ 195 Ala. 614 , 71 So. 448 ], “We think it advisable to observe that this conclusion does not conflict with In re Opinion of the Justices, 230 Ala. 673 , 163 So. 105 ; Isbell v. Shelby County, 235 Ala. 571 , 180 So. 567 ; Lyon v. Shelby County, 235 Ala. 69 , 177 So. 306 . In those cases the question related to the portion of a state tax which was allocated by law to the counties. That did not in any respect tap a resource of revenue of the counties existing or potential, but it was merely a donation of state funds and, therefore, it was not influenced by the principle here given effect. “The result is that the proposal set out in the instant proceeding as it applies to section 215 of the Constitution is authorized by it and by section 186, Title 12, Code; and although it will create a debt for Marshall County that county will not on the show”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““[T]he levy of a special tax under the second proviso of section 215 [of the Alabama Constitution], ... and the issuance of warrants payable out of such revenue in future years for the purposes there specified, constitute a debt within the meaning of sections 215 and 224, supra. So that a county which has reached its debt limit under section 224 cannot avail of the second proviso of section 215.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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