Jefferson County v. Weissman’s Empirical Analysis
2011
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
February 2018
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on William Marbury v. James Madison · United States v. Munoz-Flores · Wilkins v. Woolf · Hagan v. Commissioner's Court · State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Allen
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'the long-settled and fundamental rule binding this Court in construing provisions of the constitution is adherence to the plain meaning of the text.' " Town of Gurley v. M & N Materials, Inc. , 143 So.3d 1 , 13 (Ala. 2012) (quoting Jefferson Cty. v. Weissman , 69 So.3d 827 , 834 (Ala. 2011) ). " ' "Constitutions are the result of popular will, and their words are to be understood ordinarily as used in the sense that such words convey to the popular mind”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'the long-settled and fundamental rule binding this Court in construing provisions of the constitution is adherence to the plain meaning of the text.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'not at liberty to disregard or restrict the plain meaning of the provisions of the Constitution.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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