454 So. 2d 1035 - Michael v. Michael’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 2018
23 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 370 So. 2d 953 - Continental Oil Co. v. Williams · 345 So. 2d 316 - McEntire v. McEntire · 50 Ala. App. 79 - Haney v. Haney · Ray v. Terry · Busby v. Pierson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[Rule 60(a)] deals solely with the correction of clerical errors. Errors of a more substantial nature are to be corrected by a motion under Rules 59(e) or 60(b). Thus, the Rule 60(a) motion can only be used to make the judgment or record speak the truth and cannot be used to make it say something other than what was originally pronounced. "”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Rule 60(a)] deals solely with the correction of clerical errors. Errors of a more substantial nature are to be corrected by a motion under Rules 59(e) or 60(b). Thus, the Rule 60(a) motion can only be used to make the judgment or record speak the truth and cannot be used to make it say something other than what was originally pronounced. " (Emphasis added.) This court has previously held that Rule 60(a) "contemplates the type of error associated with mistakes in transcription, alteration, or omission of any papers and documents — a mistake mechanical in nature which does not involve a legal decision or judgment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Clerical mistakes in judgments, orders, or other parts of the record and errors therein arising from oversight or omission may be corrected by the court at any time of its own initiative or on the motion of any party and after such notice, if any, as the court orders. During the pendency of an appeal or thereafter, such mistakes may be so corrected by the trial court."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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