532 So. 2d 1043 - Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2013
7 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 497 So. 2d 509 - McCalla v. McCalla · 479 So. 2d 1283 - Griffin v. Griffin · 485 So. 2d 767 - Cox v. Cox
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Periodic alimony may be modified when there has been a material change in circumstances of the parties. Griffin v. Griffin, 479 So.2d 1283 (Ala.Civ.App. 1985). The modification of periodic alimony is discretionary with the trial court, and its decision to modify will not be overturned except for an abuse of discretion. Cox v. Cox, 485 So.2d 767 (Ala.Civ.App.1986). In determining whether there has been a change in circumstances, the trial court must consider the financial needs of the wife and the financial ability of the husband to respond to wife’s needs. McCalla v. McCalla, 497 So.2d 509 (Ala.Civ.App. 1986). Although there may be some change in circumstances since the divorce decree, modification is still discretionary with the trial court. McCalla, supra.””
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.