Childree v. Hubbert’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. “If earmarking is not appropriating, but rather a matter properly included in a revenue bill, the converse is also true: the removal or disregard of earmarking is not a matter properly to be included in an appropriation bill. Presumably, the earmarking could be removed in a proper single-subject bill or in a properly constituted revenue bill, but until such an action is taken, no appropriation bill can appropriate such funds other than as they were earmarked.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Apa v. Butler

2. “"The general appropriation bill shall embrace nothing but appropriations for the ordinary expenses of the executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the state, for interest on the public debt, and for the public schools. . . . All other appropriations shall be made by separate bills, each embracing but one subject."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 855 So. 2d 1070 - Alabama Alcoholic Beverage Control Bd. v. City of Pelham

3. “not only a general revenue act, but also adopted a revenue code that was the source of most of the `Revenue and Taxation' title, title 40, of the 1975 Code of Alabama.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 835 So. 2d 137 - Patterson v. Gladwin Corp.