550 So. 2d 1004 - Hill v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently April 2017
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 Cox v. Dodd · 455 So. 2d 829 - Mobile & Gulf R. Co. v. Crocker · Stapleton v. Stapleton · Hallmark v. Hallmark · 376 So. 2d 750 - Wells v. Wells
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.
“"[U]nder appropriate circumstances, the formal requirements for the substitution of a party under Rule 25(a)[(1), Ala.] R. Civ. P., can be waived, and thus the exercise of jurisdiction is proper. As long as the `proper party' actually defends the suit, such defense can cause a waiver of the right to formal substitution."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Generally, the death of one of the parties to a divorce decree results in abatement of the cause of action. Abatement does not occur when the decree affects property rights, and matters touching the parties’ property rights under the divorce decree are amenable to alteration or modification upon timely motion, or upon appeal. Here, the divorce decree . . . affected property rights of the parties, and upon timely motion the trial court had jurisdiction to amend, alter, or modify the decree. The trial court did not, however. have the jurisdiction to change the adjudged marital status of the parties.”
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.