Ex parte Johnson’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

5 state decisions

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.

1. “On March 30, 1942, the trustees, consisting of members of the Board of Operatives and members of the Board of Management, filed a petition for instructions with this Court asking this Court to determine whether they as trustees had the right and authority to adopt reasonable rules and regulations to govern the conduct of the trust and whether the rules and regulations submitted with the petition were reasonable and proper rules and regulations to be adopted by the trustees.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 514 So. 2d 845 - Ex Parte Adams

2. “"The rules and regulations adopted by complainants as such trustees are reasonable and proper rules and regulations to be adopted by them as such trustees and said rules and regulations are hereby in all things approved, and the complainants and their successors as such trustees are ordered to be governed and directed by said rules and regulations in their conduct of said trust."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 516 So. 2d 528 - Adams v. Farlow

3. “an attorney authorized to practice law in Birmingham, Alabama, who is not a member of either the Board of Operatives or the Board of Management,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 516 So. 2d 528 - Adams v. Farlow