Bownes v. Winston County

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• \Non-use for a period of 20 years will operate as discontinuance of a public road.\
• “ ‘[0]nce a highway, always a highway,’ ... is subject to the qualification that a highway . . . continues until it ceases to be such by the action of the general public . .. or by action of the public authorities.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

25 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Sevigny v. NEW SOUTH FEDERAL SAV. & LOAN
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-08-23· cited 32×
• Malloy v. Reyes
  Supreme Court of The Virgin Islands· 2014-07-22· cited 31×
• Phillips v. Knight
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1990-03-02· cited 30×
• Ingram v. Pollock
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-11-17· cited 16×
• Auerbach v. Parker
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1989-04-28· cited 16×
• City of Tuskegee v. Lacey
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1985-12-20· cited 14×
• In Re Anonymous
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2001-05-21· cited 11×
• Tierce v. Gilliam
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1994-12-16· cited 7×
• Holland v. City of Alabaster
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1993-08-20· cited 5×
• Kennedy v. Hines
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1995-05-26· cited 5×
• In Re Anonymous
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2001-08-03· cited 4×
• Barber v. Anderson
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1988-06-24· cited 3×
• McCreless v. Valentin
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2012-11-30· cited 3×
• Daubert Coated Products, Inc. v. Twilley
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1991-09-20· cited 3×
• Autry v. Clarke County
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1992-05-22· cited 3×
• Barry v. THE DM DRENNEN
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2007-09-14· cited 2×
• Perkins v. Shelby County
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2007-09-21· cited 2×
• Fordham v. Cleburne County Commission
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-04-05· cited 2×
• Putman v. Womack
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1992-10-16· cited 2×
• Leonard v. Terminix International Co.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1998-12-23· cited 2×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Ayers v. Stidham
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1954-03-04· cited 31×
• Purvis v. Busey
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1954-03-04· cited 26×
• Perdue v. Roberts
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1975-06-05· cited 26×
• Sheehan v. Liberty Mutual Fire Insurance Co.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1972-01-27· cited 17×
• Gwin v. Bristol Steel & Iron Works, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1978-12-22· cited 14×
• Booth v. Montrose Cemetery Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1980-08-08· cited 13×
• Floyd v. Indus. Development Bd. of City of Dothan
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1983-12-02· cited 10×
• Smith v. Duke
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1952-03-10· cited 8×