424 So. 2d 1334 - Deines v. Deines’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently November 2012
7 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 366 So. 2d 1132 - Murphree v. Murphree · 384 So. 2d 1097 - Hartsfield v. Hartsfield · 384 So. 2d 1100 - Alabama State Tenure Commission v. Board of Education · 375 So. 2d 797 - Scott v. Scott · 409 So. 2d 833 - Foster v. Foster
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As to unpaid alimony, ‘attorney’s fees in enforcement proceedings may not be awarded when no contempt citation is made.’ Scott v. Scott, 375 So.2d 797 (Ala.Civ.App.1979); Hartsfield v. Hartsfield, 384 So.2d 1097 (Ala.Civ.App.), cert. denied, 384 So.2d 1100 (Ala.1980). Thus, any allowance of counsel fees concerning the recovery of back alimony is not allowable without an adjudication that the delinquent party is in contempt of court. Since no such finding of contempt was made here, no attorney’s fee may be allowed to the [mother] which is based upon the recovery of the judgment for the past due alimony. We must reverse on that account.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““The trial court’s only stated reason for granting the fee was the fact that the wife ‘recovered back alimony.’ It is not unusual for a judge or court to fail to specify each and every reason or justification for a particular finding or holding. As a matter of fact, usually no such ground or basis for the award of a fee is stated therein.””
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.