Ex Parte Linnell’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2016
23 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 437 So. 2d 1259 - Green v. Taylor · Echols v. Star Loan Company · 417 So. 2d 172 - City of Rainbow City v. Ramsey · Cooper v. Green · 484 So. 2d 451 - In Matter of Lawler
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[P]ursuant to § 12-15-65, [Ala.Code 1975, [3] ] a hearing on the merits of the petition itself is required to determine if the children are, in fact, dependent....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the rule against raising an issue for the first time at the appellate level applies even if the issue raised would present constitutional questions”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BM v. State“a lower court will not be put in error for failure to rule on a matter which was not presented to it or decided by it”
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.