Brown v. Longiotti’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently January 2002
4 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 Eliasberg Bros. Mercantile Co. v. Grimes · State v. Birmingham So. Ry. Co. · Board of Revenue and Road Com'rs v. Puckett · Alexander v. State Ex Rel. Carver · Western Union Telegraph Co. v. State Board of Assessment
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The limitation that public money and credit can only be used for `public purposes' is a matter of due process and implicit in the Alabama Constitution. Indeed, the premise that all appropriations or expenditures of public money by municipalities and indebtedness created by them must be for a public purpose as opposed to a private purpose is a widely recognized one."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he sale of these tax-free bonds by the city of Hamilton would not serve a significant `public purpose,' but, instead would primarily benefit the individual lessee through lower rentals.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“When construing the Constitution of Alabama, [courts are] to ascertain and effectuate the intent and object originally intended to be accomplished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hornsby v. Sessions
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.