53 Ala. App. 309 - Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently September 1996
16 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 Butts v. Lancaster · Bearden v. LeMaster
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The increase in age of the two boys since 1968, and the correlative increase in need for support, together with the increase of cost of living due to inflation, is sufficient to constitute a material change of circumstances. We take judicial notice of the increase of cost of living due to inflation. Bearden v. LeMaster, 284 Ala. 588 , 226 So.2d 647 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. Edwards
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.