Harris v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently June 2017
15 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 Ex Parte Weissinger · Mitchell v. Kinney · Craig Const. Co., Inc. v. Hendrix · Ambrose v. Vandeford · Wilkerson v. Lee
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[W]hen a trial court sits in judgment on facts that are undisputed, an appellate court will determine whether the trial court misapplied the law to those undisputed facts.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[r]egistration to vote [to be] a 'potent consideration’ for a court to take into account when determining one’s domicile.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Registration to vote is a ‘potent consideration’ for a court to take into account when determining one’s domicile. Ambrose v. Vandeford, 277 Ala. 66, 70 , 167 So.2d 149, 153 (1964). See also Parr v. Shoemaker, 545 So.2d 37 (Ala.1989), and Wilkerson v. Lee, 236 Ala. 104 , 181 So. 296 (1938). ‘[V]oting is indicative of intention with respect to the question [of domicile] and is regarded as importantly bearing upon the place of domicile.’ Ex parte Weissinger, 247 Ala. 113, 117 , 22 So.2d 510, 514 (1945). Furthermore, “ ‘Exercising the right of elective franchise, dependent upon citizenship and domicile, is regarded as having weight in settling the question of a person’s legal residence. Such act is a deliberate public assertion of the fact of residence and is said to have decided preponderance in a doubtful case upon the place the elector claims as, or believes to be, his residence.’ “Weissinger; 247 Ala. at 117-18 , 22 So.2d at 514 .””
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.