567 So. 2d 314 - Ex Parte Sullivan’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently December 2012
5 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 397 So. 2d 98 - Ex Parte Dorsey Trailers, Inc. · 414 So. 2d 460 - McTier v. Rollins Protective Services, Inc. · Ex Parte State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co. · 466 So. 2d 961 - Ex Parte Sargent Industries, Inc. · Orton v. Liberty National Life Insurance
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Pursuant to Rule 26, Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure, a trial court is given authority to either limit or restrict discovery, and once the trial court chooses to so limit or restrict, its action will be liberally and broadly construed. This court will not, therefore, reverse unless it appears the trial court abused its discretion. We note that a finding of an abuse of discretion by the trial court in granting discovery requests is rarely found .' " Ex parte Sullivan, Long Hagerty , 567 So.2d 314 , 314-15 (Ala.Civ.App. 1990)."”
2 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.