Mahone v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1863
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently May 2009 · most notably Oden v. King (1927), Davis v. Davis (1962)
52 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 Brister v. State · Pearson v. Darrington · Jeter v. Jeter · Kirkman v. Vanlier · Franklin v. State
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Many acts, done under discretionary powers, are revisable. Thus, decrees in suits for specific performance, and decrees fixing the amount of temporary alimony, are revisable, notwithstanding they are referred to a discretionary authority .... But, as a general, .if not universal rule, that discretionary authority, which a court, having original cognizance of a cause, exercises over the questions arising during its progress, and pertaining to its conduct, is not revisable. Examples of such question occur in applications for continuances, filing pleas, amendments óf pleadings, extensions of time to answer interrogatories, changes of venue, new trial, etc.” 4 C. J. 797.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte Usera““The rule is to indulge all reasonable presumptions in favor of the register's decision upon questions of. fact, such as those now under consideration, and not to reverse it unless clearly satisfied that it is wrong.” Mahone v. Williams, 39 Ala. 202, 221 .”
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.