49 Ala. App. 322 - Harrell v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2018
12 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 Skipper v. Skipper · Patterson v. Brooks · Strickland v. Strickland · Ayers v. Kelley · 46 Ala. App. 22 - Porter v. Porter
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the trial court had the benefit of seeing and hearing the witnesses in an oral hearing and there is legal evidence to support its decree, the reviewing court will not substitute its judgment for that of the trier of the facts, even though the reviewing court might have reached a different conclusion. Porter v. Porter , 46 Ala. App. 22 , 237 So.2d 507 [ (Ala. Civ. App. 1970) ] ; Patterson v. Brooks , 285 Ala. 349 , 232 So.2d 598 [ (1970) ] ; Kyser v. Doan , 271 Ala. 229 , 122 So.2d 764 [ (1960) ]."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Green v. Green
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.