Monroe v. Harco, Inc.’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 25 state decisions

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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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “' Moore v. Mobile Infirmary Ass'n , 592 So.2d 156 , 159 (Ala. 1991) (quoting Alabama State Fed'n of Labor v. McAdory , 246 Ala. 1 , 9 , 18 So.2d 810 , 815 (1944)). Moreover, `[w]here the validity of a statute is assailed and there are two possible interpretations, by one of which the statute would be unconstitutional and by the other would be valid, the courts should adopt the construction [that] would uphold it.' McAdory , 246 Ala. at 10 , 18 So.2d at 815 . In McAdory , this Court further stated:”

   6 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. City of Bessemer v. McClain · CLEBURNE COUNTY COM'N v. Norton

2. “'with every presumption and intendment in favor of its validity, and seek to sustain rather than strike down the enactment of a coordinate branch of the government.'”

   4 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. King v. Morton · Kirby v. State

3. “"[i]n the government of this state, except in the instances in this Constitution hereinafter expressly directed or permitted, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them; the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them; the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them; to the end that it may be a government of laws and not of men."”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State Ex Rel. King v. Morton · 892 So. 2d 332 - Opinion of the Justices No. 380