State Supreme Court / Ala.

State Ex Rel. Wilkinson v. Murphy

Decided January 31, 1939. Thomas Edmund Knight wrote the opinion for the court.

186 So. 487 · Cited 99 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

Ohio v. Helvering · 292 U.S. 360
Southern Express Co. v. Whittle · 194 Ala. 406
State ex rel. George v. Aiken · 42 S.C. 222
Osaka Shosen Kaisha Line v. United States · 300 U.S. 98
State Docks Commission v. Barnes · 143 So. 581
Commonwealth v. Stofchek · 185 A. 840
Franklin v. State Ex Rel. Alabama State Milk Control Board · 169 So. 295
Gray v. Johnson · 179 So. 221
Walden v. City of Montgomery · 108 So. 231
Town of Athens v. Miller · 190 Ala. 82
Alabama Water Co. v. City of Attalla · 100 So. 490
Southern Ry. Co. v. Hartshorne · 162 Ala. 491
State v. Arluno · 268 N.W. 179
State Ex Rel. Superior Distributing Co. v. Davis · 7 N.E.2d 652
State ex rel. Wisconsin Development Authority v. Dammann · 228 Wis. 147

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