429 So. 2d 596 - Nolan v. Nolan’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently September 2013
9 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 362 So. 2d 846 - Raine v. First Western Bank · 55 Ala. App. 68 - Modernage Homes v. Wooldridge · 356 So. 2d 1212 - Nunn v. Stone · Stewart v. Stewart · 384 So. 2d 126 - AAA Sewing MacH. Co. v. Shelby Finance Co.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A party’s uncorroborated statement denying service upon him is not adequate proof to authorize the invalidation of a [process server’s] return. Raine v. First Western Bank, 362 So.2d 846 (Ala.1978). Stated differently, the burden of proof to overcome the presumption of the correctness of a [process server’s] return is not met by a bare denial of service by a contesting party, but it is required that additional evidence be presented to strengthen or confirm such a denial before the required burden is met. Such is the definition of ‘corroborating evidence.’ Smith v. Smith, 268 Ala. 348 , 106 So.2d 260 (1958).””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. D.B. v. D.G.
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.