503 So. 2d 830 - Weil v. Lammon’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions

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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.

1. ““In Jackson v. Hall, 460 So.2d 1290 (Ala.1984), this Court held that a prior divorce judgment was an absolute bar to a subsequent tort action for damages based upon an alleged assault and battery which had been one of the grounds for the divorce. The court expressly held that under those circumstances res judicata barred the wife’s action. The same result is compelled under the facts of this case.””

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Osborne v. Osborne · Schmidt v. Schmidt

2. “'With the merger of law and equity, and given the liberal joinder allowed by the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, there is no reason why all known claims between spouses in a divorce action should not be settled in that litigation.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 547 So. 2d 459 - Evans v. Evans · 566 So. 2d 482 - Coleman v. Coleman

3. “Where the sole ground for the divorce ... is fully litigated in a divorce proceeding, I would hold that a party is foreclosed from relitigating that cause of action in another forum. Also, where the parties agree on a settlement of all claims arising out of the marital contract, I would hold the settlement would be a bar to any future action.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Abbott v. Williams