477 So. 2d 430 - Shipe v. Shipe’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently June 2011
10 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 Norris v. Seibels · 53 Ala. App. 545 - McLaughlin v. McLaughlin · 397 So. 2d 139 - Pittman v. Pittman · Austin v. Austin · 425 So. 2d 480 - Hereford v. Hereford
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is justified only in those exceptional and compelling circumstances when a party can show sufficient equitable *Page 892 grounds to entitle him or her to relief.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'In reviewing the denial of a Rule 60(b)[, Ala.R.Civ.P.,] motion, this Court cannot consider the correctness of the underlying judgment, but is limited to determining whether the trial court abused its discretion in denying the motion.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any other reason justifying relief from the operation of the judgment.”
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.