474 So. 2d 77 - Dennis v. Dobbs’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
101 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 101 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Fadalla v. Fadalla (2005), 985 So. 2d 924 - Retail Developers of Alabama, LLC v. East Gadsden Golf Club, Inc. (2007)
101 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 First Alabama Bank of Montgomery, N. A. v. Coker · Knapp v. Knapp · 420 So. 2d 21 - Stollenwerck v. Talladega County Bd. of Educ. · Athens City Bd. of Educ. v. Reeves · 356 So. 2d 649 - Johnson v. Selma Bd. of Educ.
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 101 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The presumption of correctness, however, is rebuttable and may be overcome where there is insufficient evidence presented to the trial court to sustain its judgment.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Fadalla v. Fadalla · Swift v. Swift“plainly and palpably erroneous and manifestly unjust.”
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.