State Supreme Court / Ala.

Yeilding v. State Ex Rel. Wilkinson

Decided April 4, 1936. Thomas Edmund Knight wrote the opinion for the court.

167 So. 580 · Cited 60 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.

Kendrick v. State · 120 So. 142
Montgomery v. State · 153 So. 394
City of Evansville v. State ex rel. Blend · 118 Ind. 426
State ex rel. City of Mobile v. Board of R. & R. Com. · 180 Ala. 489
Harris v. State Ex Rel. Williams · 151 So. 858
Fuqua v. City of Mobile · 121 So. 696
City of Trenton v. New Jersey · 262 U.S. 182
Shirk v. Lancaster City · 169 A. 557
State ex rel. Geake v. Fox · 158 Ind. 126
Montgomery v. State · 163 So. 365
State ex rel. Jameson v. Denny · 118 Ind. 382
Chafor v. City of Long Beach · 163 P. 670
Mayor of Mobile v. Stonewall Insurance · 53 Ala. 570
State Ex Rel. Ward v. Henry · 139 So. 278
Ward v. State Ex Rel. Lea · 139 So. 416
State Ex Rel. Chilton County v. Butler · 142 So. 531
Montgomery v. Sparks · 142 So. 769
Town of Athens v. Miller · 190 Ala. 82
Board of Revenue and Road Com'rs v. Puckett · 149 So. 850
Board of Revenue of Jefferson County v. Hewitt · 90 So. 781
Limestone County v. Montgomery · 146 So. 607
Montgomery v. City of Athens · 155 So. 551
City of Birmingham v. Whitworth · 119 So. 841
First Nat. Bank of Scottsboro v. Jackson County · 150 So. 690
Montgomery v. Wadsworth · 148 So. 419

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Storrs v. Heck · 190 So. 78
Alabama State Federation of Labor v. McAdory · 18 So. 2d 810
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Bagby Elevator and Electric Company, Inc. v. McBride · 291 So. 2d 306
Knight v. West Alabama Environmental Improvement Authority · 246 So. 2d 903
Heck v. Hall · 190 So. 280
Ex Parte Rice · 92 So. 2d 16
Ex Parte Melof · 735 So. 2d 1172
Brammer v. Housing Authority of Birmingham Dist. · 195 So. 256
Schmitt v. Hunt · 359 P.2d 198
Hall v. Underwood · 63 So. 2d 683
State Ex Rel. Bozeman v. Hester · 72 So. 2d 61
Jordan v. City of Mobile · 71 So. 2d 513
Wilson v. State · 830 So. 2d 765
Klein v. Jefferson County Building & Loan Ass'n · 195 So. 593
Alabama Gas Co. v. City of Montgomery · 30 So. 2d 651
Taylor v. Johnson · 93 So. 2d 143
City of Birmingham v. Lee · 48 So. 2d 47
Johnson v. State Ex Rel. City of Birmingham · 17 So. 2d 662
Ex Parte Hilsabeck · 477 So. 2d 472

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