474 So. 2d 707 - Ex Parte Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently September 2018
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 455 So. 2d 863 - Ex Parte McLendon · Danford v. Dupree · Sinquefield v. Valentine · Ex Parte White · Tillman v. Walters
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While the trial court is accorded wide discretion in determining whether or not a temporary restraining order should be granted, when such an order is issued without a hearing, a close scrutiny of the existing circumstances under which it is sought should be made by the trial court. Ex parte Purvis , 382 So.2d 512 (Ala. 1980) ; Lorch, Inc. v. Bessemer Mall Shopping Center, Inc. , 294 Ala. 17 , 310 So.2d 872 (1975). Furthermore, this kind of relief cannot be accorded without notice or hearing unless 'the verified facts of the complaint clearly justify the petitioner's apprehension about the threat of irreparable injury. See Committee Comments, Rule 65, [Ala. R. [Civ.] P.' Falk v. Falk , 355 So.2d 722 , 725 (Ala. Civ. App. 1978)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"A temporary restraining order may be granted without written or oral notice to the adverse party or that party's attorney only if (1) it clearly appears from specific facts shown by affidavit or by the verified complaint that immediate and irreparable injury, loss, or damage will result to the applicant before the adverse party or that party's attorney can be heard in opposition, and (2) the applicant's attorney certifies to the court in writing the efforts, if any, which have been made to give the notice and the reasons supporting the claim that notice should not be required. "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““[Ejxcept in certain narrow circumstances hereinafter discussed, a parent having custody of a minor child cannot be de prived of that custody, even temporarily, without being given adequate notice under Rules 4 and 5, A.R.Civ.P., and an opportunity to be heard.””
2 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.