334 So. 2d 900 - Mickle v. Mickle’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently May 2014
11 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 Gorum v. Samuel · 33 Misc. 2d 798 - In re the Estate of Heller · Alabama Power Company v. Cleckler · Mitchell v. City of Mobile
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is clear that trial courts have the necessary power to correct clerical mistakes in judgments so that such judgments say what the record discloses was intended to be said. Rule 60 (a), ARCP; Alabama Power Co. v. Cleckler , 295 Ala. 73 , 323 So.2d 344 . To the ends of justice, some discretion must be allowed the courts in this regard. Gorum v. Samuel , 274 Ala. 690 , 151 So.2d 393 ."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““(a) Clerical Mistakes. Clerical mistakes in judgments, orders, or other parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or omission may be corrected by the court at any time of its own initiative or on the motion of any party and after such notice, if any, as the court orders.... ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pittman v. Pittman
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.