372 So. 2d 1106 - Atkinson v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently October 2010
12 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. 254 - Sutton v. Sutton · Rubisoff v. Rubisoff · Dixie Coaches, Inc. v. Ramsden · 57 Ala. App. 185 - O'Dell v. O'Dell · Northrup v. Northrup
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“living openly or cohabiting with a member of the opposite sex”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]e find the legislature intended to strike a balance between the occasional brief sojourn and the common-law marriage. Thus, while not every occurrence of postmarital unchastity by a former spouse will bar the right to alimony, . . a petitioner need not prove the former spouse is habitually living with another *Page 219 and that the couple consider themselves married. (Citations omitted.) . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jones v. Jones
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.