410 So. 2d 115 - Holmes v. Holmes’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently February 2010
8 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 · 378 So. 2d 1115 - Reach v. Reach · 366 So. 2d 1132 - Murphree v. Murphree · 383 So. 2d 857 - Ralls v. Ralls · 383 So. 2d 194 - Marr v. Marr
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Without an agreement to the contrary, a parent is under no legal obligation to support or educate a child after it attains the age of majority.”
1 later decision 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.