390 So. 2d 1060 - Dees v. Dees’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably O'Neal v. O'Neal (1996), Ex Parte Durbin (2001)
41 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 Hager v. Hager · 53 Ala. App. 168 - Gamble v. Gamble · Orr v. Orr · 348 So. 2d 784 - Plaskett v. Plaskett · Garner v. State
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“to preserve, insofar as possible, the economic status quo of the parties as it existed during the marriage even though the marriage is judicially terminated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]he purpose of periodic alimony is to provide for the current and continuous support of the spouse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“has been used regularly for the common benefit of the parties during their marriage,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lewis v. Lewis
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.