Parker v. Amerson’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2025 · most notably McMillian v. Monroe County (1997), Lancaster v. Monroe County (1997)
17 federal appellate · 1 district · 44 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 Martinez v. Rodriquez · Aland v. Graham · Southall v. Stricos Corporation · Dunn Const. Co. v. State Board of Adjustment · Williams v. Schwarz
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) to compel him to perform his duties, (2) to compel him to perform ministerial acts, (3) to enjoin him from enforcing unconstitutional laws, (4) to enjoin him from acting in bad faith, fraudulently, beyond his authority, or under mistaken interpretation of the law, or (5) to seek construction of a statute under the Declaratory Judgment Act if he is a necessary party for the construction of the statute.”
29 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he State of Alabama shall never be made a defendant in any court of law or equity.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he failure of county courts to punish sheriffs for neglect of duty and sheriffs' acquiescence in mob violence and ruthless vigilantism.”
3 later decisions 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.