Mims v. Blanton’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Yeilding v. State Ex Rel. Wilkinson · Opinion by the Justices · State ex rel. Gamble v. Hubbard · State Ex Rel. Britton v. Harris · Marshall County Board of Education v. State Ex Rel. Williams
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 2 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. .to declare legislative enactments inoperative and void for uncertainty in meaning where they are so incomplete, so conflicting, or so vague and indefinite that the court is unable, by the application of the accepted rules of construction, to determine what the legislature intended. . . .” Marshall County Board of Education v. State, 252 Ala. 547, 550 , 42 So.2d 24, 26 (1949).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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