White v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2011
10 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 American Pipe & Construction Co. v. Utah · Crown, Cork & Seal Co. v. Parker · Liotta v. National Forge Co. · Chevalier v. Baird Savings Ass'n · Eagerton v. Williams
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.
“"On November 25, 1981, an action styled Mangum, et al. v. Eagerton, et al. , was filed in the Circuit Court of Montgomery County, Alabama, Civil Action No. CV-81-1592-G. This lawsuit sought to establish a statewide class of plaintiffs against a statewide class of defendants, challenging the method used to determine current use valuation of land for ad valorem tax purposes as being contrary to Act No. 135, and further seeking a refund of excess taxes collected in the years 1979, 1980, and 1981. "At the time of the filing of the Mangum case, no notice was sent to the plaintiffs' class of the pendency of the action, nor was any notification ever given. Subsequent to the filing of Mangum , and without any opposition of the parties, the case was placed on the administrative docket pending a decision by this Court in the case of Eagerton v. Williams , 433 So.2d 436 (Ala. 1983). "After the Eagerton decision was rendered, the trial court on June 15, 1983, placed the Mangum case back on the active docket and an order was entered *Page 846 certifying Mangum as a statewide plaintiffs' class. "During the pendency of the Mangum case, the instant action, Sims v. White , was filed in the Circuit Court of Covington County, Alabama, on April 18, 1983. The complaint in Sims sought identical relief as that sought in Mangum , except that Sims sought to assert a class action on behalf of owners of eligible Class III property situated within Covington County and sought relief limited to Covington ”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the commencement of a class action tolls the statute of limitations until such time as an independent action is filed, or until the denial of class certification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
How this case has been treated — in progress
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