LeFlore v. State Ex Rel. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 363 So. 2d 760 - Holmes v. Powell (1978), State Ex Rel. Moore v. Strickland (1972)
38 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 Ex Parte Rosenblum · Lewis v. Martin · Liverpool London Globe Ins. Co. v. Lowe · Taylor v. Hoffman · Mt. Vernon-Woodberry Mills v. Union Springs Guano Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]n appeal is not a matter of vested right, but by the grace of statute, and must be perfected pursuant to the time and manner prescribed in the controlling statute, and if the requirements of such statute are not met, the appeal must be dismissed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"The state of Alabama or the reputed father may appeal from any final judgment rendered under Section 26-12-4 by the court in which the proceeding originated within 10 days after rendition thereof by filing written notice of such appeal within said prescribed period with the clerk of the circuit court to which said appeal is taken and in the court rendering the judgment. . . ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““6/30 Com. and Def. appearing with their attorney and additional testimony being received, at the conclusion of which both Comp, and Def. rested, from the evidence presented the Court finds the Def. to be the father of the children Colette and Claudia Moore. Def. gives notice of appeal and the Court sets appeal bond at $100 and declines to fix a specific amount of support pending the hearing of the appeal at which time, if affirmed, the Court will fix support payments unless this is done by the Appeal Court.””
1 later decision 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.