Braswell v. Braswell’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2009
14 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 455 So. 2d 863 - Ex Parte McLendon · 55 Ala. App. 379 - Gould v. Gould · 368 So. 2d 295 - Alford v. Alford · 396 So. 2d 1069 - Wyatt v. Falhsing · 455 So. 2d 861 - McLendon v. McLendon
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Our law is clear that one bringing a petition for modification of a prior order as to child custody has the burden of proving that a material change in circumstances affecting the child's best interest has occurred since the prior order. In order to overcome the rule of repose accompanying the prior order, the evidence of a change in circumstances must be so substantial as to disclose an obvious and overwhelming necessity for change of custody. Munchus v. Munchus , 412 So.2d 794 (Ala.Civ.App. 1982); Alford v. Alford , 368 So.2d 295 (Ala.Civ.App. 1979). Put another way, in order to overcome the inherently disruptive effect of uprooting the child, there must be evidence to show that the child's best interests are promoted by the change in custody. McLendon v. McLendon , 455 So.2d 861 (Ala.Civ.App. 1984); rev'd , 455 So.2d 863 (Ala. 1984)."”
3 later decisions 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.