370 So. 2d 1008 - Roberson v. Roberson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently December 2014 · most notably Ex Parte Riley (1985), 431 So. 2d 1139 - Cheek v. Ricker (1983)
26 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 55 Ala. App. 379 - Gould v. Gould · 345 So. 2d 316 - McEntire v. McEntire · Nelson v. Nelson · 316 So. 2d 202 - Whitt v. Vauthier · 45 Ala. App. 367 - Rowe v. Rowe
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a mother will not be denied custody for every act of indiscretion or immorality”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A]lthough it [sexual act] was alleged to have been committed while the children were in the Roberson home, it was not in their presence. The remaining testimony which relates to the mother's unfitness, particularly that of Mr. Dunlap, at best tends to indicate indiscretion on her part. But here again, there is no proof that it occurred in the children's presence or that it had a direct bearing on their welfare.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Reversed and Remanded [the modification order] for Entry of a Judgment Not Inconsistent with [Its] Opinion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Riley
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.