Davis v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
75 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2000 · most notably Orr v. Orr (1979), 49 Ala. App. 514 - Phillips v. Phillips (1973)
75 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 Smith v. Rogers · Sills v. Sills · Garlington v. Garlington · Taylor v. Taylor · Steiner v. Steiner
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It must depend upon . . . what is just and reasonable. . . . "The court may and should inquire into the earning ability of the parties and their probable future prospects, their age, sex, health and station in life; the duration of the marriage, . . ." (Davis v. Davis , 274 Ala. 277 , 278-79 , 147 So.2d 828 , 830 (1962)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Clift v. Clift · Ward v. Ward““The fourth Assignment of Error made by appellant was with reference to the final decree of the lower court placing a lien on all of the real estate and interest in real estate, situated in Henry County, Alabama, owned by appellant to secure payment of the permanent alimony. This was not error. The cases are numerous on the point that the court may secure payment of alimony by declaring a lien on the husband’s property. Phillips v. Phillips, 221 Ala. 455 , 129 So. 3 ; Smith v. Rogers, 215 Ala. 581 , 112 So. 190 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Russell v. Russell“It must depend upon . . . what is just and reasonable. . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clift v. Clift
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.