470 So. 2d 1297 - Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2018
20 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 Kabaci v. Kabaci · Block v. Block · 442 So. 2d 102 - Mims v. Mims · 440 So. 2d 1091 - Prentice v. Prentice · Roberts v. Roberts
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the remarriage of the paying spouse, Lloyd v. Lloyd , 52 Ala. App. 374 , 292 So.2d 668 (1974) ; the receiving spouse's employment since the divorce, May v. May , 441 So.2d 945 (Ala. Civ. App. 1983) ; the financial status and needs of the receiving spouse, Parrish v. Parrish , 365 So.2d 1237 (Ala. Civ. App. 1979) ; whether the receiving spouse is presently capable of self-support, Lloyd v. Lloyd , supra ; the ability of the paying spouse to respond to the former spouse's financial needs, Matthews v. Matthews , 404 So.2d 692 (Ala. Civ. App. 1981) ; whether there are dependent children, Parrish v. Parrish , supra ; whether alimony was originally agreed upon, Roberts v. Roberts , 395 So.2d 1035 (Ala. Civ. App. 1981) ; whether there has been a material change in the financial situation of either, or both, of the parties, Shirley v. Shirley , 397 So.2d 156 (Ala. Civ. App. 1981) ; the health, age and education of the parties, the earning ability of the parties and their probable future prospects, the duration of the marriage, the conduct of the parties with particular reference to the cause of the divorce, Block v. Block , 281 Ala. 214 , 201 So.2d 51 (1967) ; the length of time separating the initial alimony award and the modification hearing, Roberts v. Roberts , supra ; and any other material and relevant circumstances as disclosed by the evidence in a particular case."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Higgs v. Higgs“[a] provision in a judgment which grants periodic alimony may be modified when there has been a material change in the circumstances of either or both of the parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Higgs v. Higgs“[s]ome of the factors, facts and circumstances that a trial court may consider in periodic alimony modification cases,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Higgs v. Higgs
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.