472 So. 2d 640 - Anonymous v. Anonymous’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently December 2007
17 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 Stanley v. Illinois · Lehr v. Robertson · R.Mcg. v. J.W. · City of Mobile v. Gulf Development Co. · Leonard v. Leonard
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““If a complaint alleges the substance of a bona fide justiciable controversy which should be settled, it states a cause of action for a declaratory judgment. The motion to dismiss the complaint should be overruled, and a declaration of rights made and entered only after answer and the presentation of evidence. Southern Railway [Co.] v. Kendall, 288 Ala. 430 , 261 So.2d 752 (1972).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In a case of actual controversy within its jurisdiction, ... any court of the United States, upon the filing of an appropriate pleading, may declare the rights and other legal relations of any interested party seeking such declaration, whether or not further relief is or could be sought.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re D.M.“One of the strongest and most persuasive presumptions known to the law is that a child born to a married woman is presumed to be the legitimate offspring of the husband....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dd v. Cld
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.