507 So. 2d 466 - Wallace v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2018
1 federal appellate · 21 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 400 So. 2d 375 - City of Homewood v. Caffee · 410 So. 2d 17 - Barger v. Barger · 476 So. 2d 97 - Broughton v. Merchants Nat. Bank of Mobile · 475 So. 2d 1190 - Guy v. Southwest Ala. Council on Alcoholism · Averyt v. City of Mobile Fire Department
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The jurisdiction of our probate courts '”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Caffee , 400 So.2d at 378 ; Averyt , 487 So.2d at 914 . 'In other words, [the probate court having denied their petition to incorporate], only by invoking the general jurisdiction of the circuit court, by way of a collateral suit, could [appellants'] constitutional challenges be raised and presented for determination.' Averyt , supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In order for this Court to review the constitutionality of a legislative act, the appellant must have raised that issue in a court below that had jurisdiction to adjudicate that issue.”
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.