459 So. 2d 780 - Covington v. Covington’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2005 · most notably 556 So. 2d 303 - McDaniel v. Ritter (1989), 572 So. 2d 841 - Bell v. Bell (1990)
26 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 Mullane v. Central Hanover Bank & Trust Co. · Gresham v. Gresham · 357 So. 2d 129 - Campbell v. Campbell · Crum v. Upchurch · 440 So. 2d 544 - Allen v. State
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had personal jurisdiction of the defendant at the time of the divorce that personal jurisdiction continues.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“§ 9-5-87. Power to punish for violation of injunction. The chancery court, or the chancellor in vacation, or judge granting the writ, shall have power to punish any person for breach of injunction, or any other order, decree, or process of the court, by fine or imprisonment, or both, or the chancellor or judge granting the writ may require bail for the appearance of the party at the next term of the court to answer for the contempt; but such person shall be first cited to appear and answer. And any person so punished by order of the chancellor in vacation, may on five days' notice to the opposite party, apply to a judge of the supreme court, who, for good cause shown, may supersede the punishment until the meeting of said chancery court.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(b) Service: How Made. Whenever under these rules service is required or permitted to be made upon a party who is represented by an attorney of record in the proceedings, the service shall be made upon such an attorney unless service upon party himself is ordered by the court. Service upon the attorney or upon a party shall be made by delivering a copy to him or by mailing it to him at his last known address, or if no address is known, by leaving it with the clerk of the court... . Service by mail is complete upon mailing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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