410 So. 2d 17 - Barger v. Barger’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 2015
21 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 Bond's Jewelry Company v. City of Mobile · Nicholson v. Board of Commissioners of the Alabama State Bar Ass'n
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t seems only reasonable and logical that [by § 6-6-227 ] the legislature intended to cover other than original declaratory judgment actions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“compliance with § 6-6-227 is only required in original actions for declaratory relief which involve the validity of a state statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“service on the Attorney General, pursuant to § 6-6-227 , is mandatory and jurisdictional,”
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.