596 So. 2d 4 - Ex Parte Edmac McCall’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently October 2017 · most notably Beavers v. County of Walker (1994), Hines v. Riverside Chevrolet-Olds, Inc. (1995)
22 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 Holywell Corp. v. Smith · 507 So. 2d 902 - Clark v. Houston County Com'n · 442 So. 2d 102 - Mims v. Mims · Pressnell v. Pressnell · Yarchak v. Munford, Inc.
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘It is apparent that the [Workers’ Compensation] Act is designed to financially aid an employee and/or his dependents in the event of a job related injury or death.’ Yarchak v. Munford, 570 So.2d [648] at 650 [ (Ala.1990) ]. Obviously, the purpose of the exemption portion of the Act is to prevent creditors from seizing or garnishing benefits owned by an injured employee or his dependents. The exemption should not be used to relieve a person from an obligation to support his or her spouse or children.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Ala.Code 1975, § 25-5-86(2), provides: “Claims for compensation awards, judgments, or agreements to pay compensation owned by an injured employee or his or her dependent shall not be assignable and shall be exempt from seizure or sale or garnishment for the payment of any debt or liability.””
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.