369 So. 2d 1240 - Taylor v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2016
13 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 56 Ala. App. 318 - Womble v. Womble · Hutton v. Hutton · Mockridge v. Mockridge · Block v. Block · 57 Ala. App. 185 - O'Dell v. O'Dell
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is recognized in this state that a trial court may modify an award of alimony . . . in a divorce decree upon a showing of changed circumstances of one or both of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corsino v. Corsino“In short, the husband entered into the alimony and support agreement with the knowledge that the two sources of income had been or would be terminated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Corsino v. Corsino“except for clear and sufficient reasons after the question has been subjected to thorough consideration and investigation.”
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.