437 So. 2d 571 - Epperson v. Epperson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2007
6 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 390 So. 2d 1060 - Dees v. Dees · 360 So. 2d 340 - Price v. Price · 356 So. 2d 202 - Reeder v. Reeder · 350 So. 2d 723 - Carroll v. State · 390 So. 2d 1058 - Horsley v. Horsley
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]n Horsley v. Horsley , 390 So.2d 1058 (Ala.Civ.App.), cert. denied , 390 So.2d 1060 (Ala. 1980), we stated the rule for construction of judgments when we said: "`Judgments and decrees are to be construed like other written instruments, and, if there is any uncertainty, the court must construe them so as to express the intent of the parties. Price v. Price , Ala.Civ.App., 360 So.2d 340 (1978); Reeder v. Reeder , Ala. Civ. App., 356 So.2d 202 (1978). Such intent can be derived from the provisions of the agreement. Reeder v. Reeder, supra.' "Thus, where a judgment can be construed in such a manner as to express the intention of the parties, it must stand."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Downs v. Downs
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