376 So. 2d 737 - Young v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Griggs v. Griggs (1994), 597 So. 2d 699 - Johnson v. Johnson (1991)
49 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 53 Ala. App. 309 - Jones v. Jones · 346 So. 2d 967 - Hawkins v. Hawkins · 53 Ala. App. 426 - Howard v. Howard · Bill v. Bill · 53 Ala. App. 312 - Miller v. Parker
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is our duty to affirm the trial court's judgment if it is fairly supported by credible evidence, `regardless of our own view of that evidence or whether we would have reached a different result had we been the trial judge.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"This court has committed itself to the principles that the increase in age of minor children and the correlative increase in need for support, when coupled with the increase in the cost of living due to inflation, is sufficient to constitute a material change of circumstances and support a modification." (Citations omitted.)”
2 later decisions 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.