Handley v. Handley’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2017
5 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 Addington v. Texas · 49 Ala. App. 658 - Borsdorf v. Mills · 374 So. 2d 1335 - Costarides v. Miller · 351 So. 2d 538 - State Ex Rel. Payne v. Empire Life Ins. Co. · 372 So. 2d 1092 - Shelby County Commission v. Smith
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Attorney's fees have been awarded to the mother in child custody cases, but in those cases, the father has been the party required to pay the fees, the authority for the award arising from the marital relationship. Torme v. Torme, 251 Ala. 521 , 38 So.2d 497 (1949). "Since there has been no marital relationship between the parties, no statute authorizing the award of attorney's fees, and no fund created for such purpose, we hold that the trial court had no legal basis for requiring the [Handleys] to pay the mother an attorney's fee. This aspect of the decree is reversed."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Handley“any testimony about their sexual relations would have related to instances that occurred beyond the one-year statute of limitations for adultery,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“acts occurring beyond the one-year statute of limitations.”
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.