Mize v. Mize’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 1981
16 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Anderson v. State · Gulf, M. O. R. Co. v. Sims · Taylor v. Taylor · Whitman v. Whitman · Sovereign Camp, W. O. W. v. Davis
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the evidence is heard orally by the trial judge, his conclusions therefrom have the effect of a jury’s verdict and his finding should not be disturbed unless plainly erroneous or manifestly wrong. Mize v. Mize, 273 Ala. 369 , 141 So.2d 200 ; Maxwell v. City of Birmingham, 271 Ala. 570 , 126 So.2d 209, 211 ; Board of Zoning Adjustment for the City of Lanett v. Boykin, 265 Ala. 504, 508 , 92 So.2d 906 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Anderson
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.