Bates v. Bates’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gasperini v. Center for Humanities, Inc. · 676 So. 2d 1322 - Ex Parte Bryowsky · 646 So. 2d 46 - Ex Parte Perkins · 655 So. 2d 1060 - Scholl v. Parsons · 676 So. 2d 89 - Milstead v. Diamond M Offshore, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[Alabama’s Parent-Child Relationship Protection] Act does not require the trial court to make specific findings of fact in its judgment, see Clements v. Clements, 906 So.2d 952, 957 (Ala.Civ.App.2005), and, in the absence of specific findings of fact, “ ‘this court must assume that the trial court made those findings necessary to support its judgment.’ ” Id. (quoting Steed v. Steed, 877 So.2d 602, 603 (Ala.Civ.App.2003)).’ “Pepper v. Pepper, 65 So.3d 421, 426 (Ala.Civ.App.2010).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larue v. Patterson
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.