Long v. Bryant’s Empirical Analysis

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6 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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"`In this ascertainment, we must look to the entire Act instead of isolated phrases or clauses. . . .' Darks Dairy, Inc. v. Alabama Dairy Comm'n , 367 So.2d 1378 , 1380 (Ala. 1979). In construing statutes, we may glean legislative intent from the language used, the reason and necessity for the legislative act, and the purpose sought to be obtained. Bama Budweiser of Montgomery, Inc. v. Anheuser-Busch, Inc. , 611 So.2d 238 (Ala. 1992)."”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Lattimore v. Lattimore

2. ““In reviewing a trial court’s findings of fact in an election contest, we apply the same standard used by appellate courts when the trial court in a nonjury case has taken a material part of the evidence through ore tenus testimony; that is, we will not disturb the trial court’s findings of fact unless those findings are plainly and palpably wrong and not supported by the evidence.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Fluker v. Wolff

3. “Rule 28(a)(10), Ala. R.App. P., requires that an argument in an appellant's... brief contain `citations to the cases, statutes, other authorities, and parts of the record relied on.'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Kelmor, LLC v. Alabama Dynamics, Inc.