456 So. 2d 1096 - Averyt v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 2004
12 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 Bush v. Lucas · 50 Ala. App. 684 - Grant v. City of Mobile · Jordan v. City of Mobile · 447 So. 2d 713 - Ex Parte City of Tuskegee · 57 Ala. App. 516 - City of Mobile v. Personnel Board for Mobile County
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is the policy of this state that the blind, the visually handicapped and the otherwise physically disabled shall be employed in ... the service of the political subdivisions of the state ... and in all other employment supported in whole or in part by public funds on the same terms and conditions as the able-bodied, unless it is shown that the particular disability prevents the performance of the work involved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“incapacity due to mental or physical disability.”
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.