621 So. 2d 240 - Boros v. Baxley’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently March 2018 · most notably Douglas v. Delp (1999), Rector v. Better Houses, Inc. (2001)
35 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 465 So. 2d 350 - Matter of Sheffield · 569 So. 2d 375 - John R. Cowley & Bros., Inc. v. Brown · 516 So. 2d 606 - Ex Parte Balogun · 388 So. 2d 942 - Stallings v. Angelica Uniform Co. · Acromag-Viking v. Blalock
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Although Rule 15(a) itself calls for liberal amendment, this Court has held consistently that `the grant or denial of leave to amend is a matter that is within the discretion of the trial court and is subject to reversal on appeal only for an abuse of discretion.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“Rule 15, [Ala. R. Civ. P.], is not carte blanche authority to amend a complaint at any time.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Unless a court has ordered otherwise, a party may amend a pleading without leave of court, but subject to disallowance on the court's own motion or a motion to strike of an adverse party, at any time more than forty-two (42) days before the first setting of the case for trial, and such amendment shall be freely allowed when justice so requires. Thereafter, a party may amend a pleading only by leave of court, and leave shall be given only upon a showing of good cause."”
3 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.