Mencer v. Mencer’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 1985
15 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 Jones v. Jones · Stewart v. Stewart · Hartsfield v. Hartsfield
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The trial court can, in its discretion, modify an original award for alimony or support in a divorce decree on proof of changed circumstances of parties, one or both, but unless the discretion is abused, an order will not be reversed on appeal. Mencer v. Mencer, 277 Ala. 679 , 174 So. 2d 319 ; Gambrell v. Gambrell, 268 Ala. 671 , 110 So.2d 248 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Skipper v. Skipper
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.