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← 28 Ala. App. 73 - Williams v. State

28 Ala. App. 73 - Williams v. State’s Empirical Analysis

1938

Citation profile

49
cited by 49 later decisions
1
states following
May 1979
most recently cited

47 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently May 1979 · most notably 52 Ala. App. 204 - Loggins v. State (1974), Holt v. State (1939)

47 state decisions

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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. · May v. Head · Smith v. McQueen · Cook v. Meyer Bros. · Pearce v. Bank of Mobile

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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “county, i. e., a county wherein a majority of the electors voting in the election provided for in section 51 of the aforementioned”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “and wherein the said act by its own terms did”
    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.