485 So. 2d 767 - Cox v. Cox’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2009
9 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 Ebert v. Ebert · 470 So. 2d 1297 - Murphy v. Murphy · 443 So. 2d 1258 - Bell v. Bell · 466 So. 2d 971 - Stinson v. Stinson · 447 So. 2d 1311 - Boggan v. Boggan
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Additionally, we would reiterate that in periodic alimony modification cases the law is concerned with one's ability to earn, as opposed to actual earnings, in determining whether periodic alimony should be terminated, increased, or reduced in modification proceedings. Ebert v. Ebert , 469 So.2d 615 (Ala.Civ.App. 1985)."”
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.