Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 52 Ala. App. 224 - Eubanks v. Eubanks · 348 So. 2d 784 - Plaskett v. Plaskett · 385 So. 2d 1323 - Allen v. Allen · 57 Ala. App. 691 - Huggins v. Huggins · 376 So. 2d 1101 - Smythe v. Smythe
Most-quoted passages
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“[t]he judgment cannot be altered on appeal if it is supported by legal evidence unless the trial court's decision was palpably wrong.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]his court pretermits a summary of the evidence. Little or nothing would be contributed to the law by stating the pertinent facts.”
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.