Hanks v. Hanks’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably Lynch v. Baxley (1974), 407 So. 2d 559 - Ex Parte Sullivan (1981)
44 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 Yauger v. Taylor · Tuscaloosa County v. Shamblin · Branyon v. Kirk · Hinson v. Naugher · Carmack v. State
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] party to a bill seeking a declaratory judgment is entitled to a jury trial as a matter of right if he would have had such a right in the cause of action for which the declaratory relief may be considered a substitute.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““The right of adoption, that is, to confer on the child of another a title to the privileges and rights of a child and appointment as heir of the adopting person is purely statutory, and was never recognized by the rules of common law. Abney v. DeLoach, Admr., 84 Ala. 393 , 4 So. 757 [(1888)]; Franklin v. White, 263 Ala. 223 , 82 So.2d 247 [(1955)]; Milton v. Summers, 280 Ala. 106 , 190 So.2d 540 [(1966)].””
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex parte E.L. · Chh v. Rh“`When a proceeding under this article involves the determination of an issue of fact, such issue may be tried and determined in the same manner as issues of fact are tried and determined in other civil actions in the court in which the proceeding is pending.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.