Mitchell v. Mobile County’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently February 2015 · most notably 396 So. 2d 645 - Beck v. State (1981), 589 So. 2d 687 - Tuscaloosa County Com'n v. Deputy Sheriffs (1991)
25 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 Spraigue v. Thompson · Burns v. State · Alabama Industrial Bank v. State Ex Rel. C. E. Avinger · Wilkins v. Woolf · May v. Head
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“if the remaining portions of an Act are complete within themselves, sensible and capable of execution, the Act will stand.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to mean minimum basic salary, excluding overtime pay, riot training pay, and other benefits and allowances. The structure of Act No. 323 also supports the conclusion that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We must find that intent only from the words in which it is expressed, applied to the facts existing at the time,”
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.