409 So. 2d 475 - Congo v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2011 · most notably 587 So. 2d 1072 - Parker v. State (1991), 588 So. 2d 561 - Smith v. State (1991)
1 federal appellate · 36 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 Sibron v. State of New York Peters · United States v. Robinson · Henry v. United States · Michigan v. · Gustafson v. Florida
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`A municipality has the authority to enact ordinances pursuant to its police powers, Ott v. Moody, 283 Ala. 288 , 216 So.2d 177 (1968); Smith v. Town of Notasulga, 257 Ala. 382 , 59 So.2d 674 (1952), as long as the ordinances are consistent with the general laws of the State. Ala. Const., Art. IV, § 89 (1901); Ala.Code § 11-45-1 (1975). "`Whether an ordinance is inconsistent with the general law of the State is to be determined by whether the municipal law prohibits anything which the State law specifically permits. See Leu v. City of Mountain Brook, Ala.Cr.App., 386 So.2d 483 , cert. denied, Ala., 386 So.2d 488 (1980); Atkins v. City of Tarrant City , Ala.Cr.App., 369 So.2d 322 (1979). See also Atchley v. State, Ala. Cr.App., 393 So.2d 1034 (1981); Plump v. City of Birmingham, Ala.Cr.App., 385 So.2d 1349 , cert. denied, Ala., 385 So.2d 1351 (1980).' "`An ordinance which merely enlarges upon the provision of a statute by requiring more restrictions than the statute requires creates no conflict unless the statute limits the requirement for all cases to its own terms.'"”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“the law is concerned with tracing the integrity of the substance only up through the completion of the analysis.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A person commits the crime of public intoxication if he appears in a public place under the influence of alcohol, narcotics or other drug to the degree that he endangers himself or another person or property, or by boisterous and offensive conduct annoys another person in his vicinity."”
2 later decisions 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.