45 So. 3d 347 - Willis v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
2010
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 617 So. 2d 1036 - Parrish v. Parrish · 719 So. 2d 228 - Brown v. Brown · 624 So. 2d 620 - Murphy v. Murphy · Mosley v. Mosley · 709 So. 2d 1299 - Nelson v. Landis
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'cannot affirm a child-support order if [we have] to guess at what facts the trial court found in order to enter the support order it entered....'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Blood v. Blood · Green v. Green““The record contains no written documentation of the parties’ partial settlement agreement, and an oral settlement agreement is valid and enforceable ‘only if it is made in open court or during a pretrial conference.’ Contractor Success Group, Inc. v. Service Thrust Org., Inc., 681 So.2d 212, 215 (Ala.Civ.App.1996). This court has explained: “ ‘All settlement agreements entered into by attorneys and occurring at the trial-court level are governed by § 34-3-21, Ala.Code 1975. Ex parte Sims, 627 So.2d 380, 382 (Ala.1993). To be effective under § 34-3-21, an agreement must be made in writing or entered in the minutes of the court. Holmes v. Sanders, 729 So.2d 314, 316 (Ala.1999); and Ex parte Kiely, 579 So.2d 1366, 1367 (Ala.Civ.App.1991).’ “Proffitt v. Cochran, 742 So.2d 188, 189 (Ala.Civ.App.1999).””
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.