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1982

Citation profile

29
cited by 29 later decisions
1
states following
March 2018
most recently cited

28 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 986 So. 2d 1172 - JC v. State Department of Human Resources (2007), 470 So. 2d 1269 - Matter of Moore (1985)

28 state decisions

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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 May v. Anderson · 49 Ala. App. 658 - Borsdorf v. Mills · 358 So. 2d 451 - Crews v. HOUSTON CTY. DEPT. OF PENSIONS & SEC. · 361 So. 2d 1082 - Worley v. Jinks · In Re Palmer

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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “the court finds from clear and convincing evidence, competent, material and relevant in nature, that the child is dependent and in need of care or supervision. . . .”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 437 So. 2d 1313 - Sanders v. Guthrie · 418 So. 2d 913 - Hudgins v. State
  2. “indulge a presumption that parental custody will be in the best interests of the child,”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. J.P. v. D.P. · 986 So. 2d 1172 - JC v. State Department of Human Resources
  3. “[W]ithout evidence as to the parent's present ability to care for [the children] and existing conditions of her home and life style, there can be no `clear and convincing' evidence that the children's best interest would be served by terminating the parent's parental rights and placing [the children] in the permanent custody of the State of Alabama.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
    e.g. 740 So. 2d 1089 - Th v. State Dept. of Human Resources · 428 So. 2d 91 - Gaddy v. ALABAMA DEPT. OF PENSIONS & SEC.

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.