Bowman v. Bowman’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““The record does not contain a transcription of any testimony, if any, taken or introduced before the trial judge or taken as otherwise provided by law. The final decree does not state that evidence was heard or considered by the court supportive of the decree sustaining the plea and dismissing the cause. Nor does the judgment state that issue was joined on the plea. “The affirmative burden of proof to sustain the plea was on the respondents, who filed the plea and asserted it as a bar to the relief complainant seeks. The record here does not show that respondents, to sustain the plea, offered any evidence for the consideration of the court. “Irrespective of the manner taken, there is no testimony properly before this court, and without this record there is no evidence susceptible of review to sustain the decree which granted affirmative relief to appellee from further prosecution of complainant’s suit, followed by its dismissal.” (Emphasis Supplied) ( 274 Ala. at 500, 501 , 150 So.2d at 386, 387 )”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Turner v. Hargrove