454 So. 2d 1331 - Shell v. Jefferson County’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently March 2015
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 Oppenheim v. City of Florence · 367 So. 2d 1378 - Darks Dairy, Inc. v. Ala. Dairy Com'n · In Re Opinions of the Justices · Smith v. Town of Guin · Opinion of the Justices
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The authority to levy and collect sewer charges and rentals shall be limited to such charges as will pay the principal of and interest on the bonds and the reasonable expense of extending, improving, operating and maintaining said sewers and plants; and when the bonds shall have been paid off, service charges and rentals shall be accordingly reduced, it being the intent and purpose of this amendment that the expenses of needed improvements and extensions and maintenance and operation of the sewers and sewerage treatment and disposal plants and no other expenditures shall be paid from such service charges and rentals."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"[S]uch charges or rentals [for, among other things, the cost of operating and maintaining the sewers and sewerage treatment and disposal plants] shall be a personal obligation of the occupant of the property the sewerage from which is disposed of by such sewers or treated in *Page 332 such plants and shall also be a lien upon such property , enforceable by a sale thereof."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to pay the expenses of constructing, improving, extending and repairing sewers and sewerage treatment and disposal plants in [Jefferson] county.”
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.