Shelton v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably 466 So. 2d 956 - Ex Parte Holladay (1985), T.B. v. State (1997)
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 418 So. 2d 89 - Boshell v. Keith · Snodgrass v. Snodgrass · Fitts v. Alexander · Ballenger v. Liberty National Life Insurance Company · Rinehart v. Reliance Insurance Company
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The fundamental rule of statutory construction is that a court is under a duty to ascertain and effectuate legislative intent as expressed in the statute, see e.g., Gundy v. Ozier , 409 So.2d 764 , 765 , 766 (Ala. 1981), which may be gleaned from the language used, the reason and necessity for the act and the purpose sought to be obtained. See Rinehart v. Reliance Ins. Co. , 273 Ala. 535 , 538 , 142 So.2d 254 , 256 (1962).”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“'(2) When neither the complainant nor any other person is in the actual possession of the lands and complainant has held color of title to the lands, or interest so claimed, for a period of ten or more consecutive years next preceding the filing of the bill, and has paid taxes on the lands or interest during the whole of such period[;]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[b]ased on these circumstances, the implication arises that the grantor in these two deeds foreclosed his lien against the appellants' predecessors and conveyed the mineral interests to the appellees' predecessors.”
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.