401 So. 2d 92 - Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2010
17 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 Montgomery v. Montgomery · 360 So. 2d 340 - Price v. Price · 356 So. 2d 202 - Reeder v. Reeder · 383 So. 2d 857 - Ralls v. Ralls · 355 So. 2d 722 - Falk v. Falk
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In Alabama an equity court can not sua sponte require a parent to support his adult child. . . . But, a decree which is based on an agreement providing for support . . . by one of the parents after the children reach their majority can be enforced and modified.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Musgrove v. Musgrove“[d]ivorce decrees are to be construed like other written instruments and if there is any uncertainty and ambiguity the court must construe it so as to express the intent of the parties. . . . Such intent can be derived from the provisions of the judgment.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“necessary and reasonable education expenses”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Winsett v. Woodward
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.