Brashear v. Spinks’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2013
4 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 614 So. 2d 409 - PACIFIC ENT. OIL v. Howell Petroleum · 588 So. 2d 458 - Cove Creek Development Corp. v. APAC-Alabama, Inc. · Chesser v. T.G. & Y. Stores Co. · Tatum v. Goode
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The record is comprised solely of the clerk’s record. There was no hearing on the complaint. Even from a review of the record before us, however, it appears that the [former] husband’s request for attorney fees was well grounded. The [former] wife admitted in her affidavit that the allegations of the complaint were untrue. She stated in deposition that she brought the action, over twenty-five years after the divorce decree, because the [former] husband’s ‘mother treated her like a dog.’ It appears that if the [former] wife’s attorney had investigated his client’s charges by a simple title search of the property in question, he would have found that there was no validity to her complaint. Counsel for the [former] husband, by letters and pleading, informed the [former] wife’s counsel of the falseness of her charges soon after the complaint was filed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage““It appears that if [LAPOA’s] attorney had investigated his client’s charges by a simple title search of the property in question, he would have found that there was no validity to [LAPOA’s] complaint.””
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.