563 So. 2d 1059 - Dees v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently September 2018 · most notably 739 So. 2d 511 - Owens v. Owens (1999), 822 So. 2d 431 - Horton v. Horton (2001)
51 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 331 So. 2d 623 - Jewell v. Jackson & Whitsitt Cotton Co. · 496 So. 2d 91 - Tidwell v. Tidwell · 404 So. 2d 688 - Gamble v. First Alabama Bank · 414 So. 2d 129 - Wolf v. Smith
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“final judgment is a `terminal decision which demonstrates there has been a complete adjudication of all matters in controversy between the litigants.'”
28 later decisions 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.