Rolls v. Rolls’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2011
6 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 519 So. 2d 525 - Montgomery v. Montgomery · Frazer v. Tyson · 473 So. 2d 1091 - Dowdy v. Dowdy · 440 So. 2d 1091 - Prentice v. Prentice · Waste Contractors, Inc. v. State
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Matters such as alimony and property division rest within the sound discretion of the trial court and the court's rulings on those matters will not be reversed unless that discretion was palpably abused. Those issues are interrelated and `the entire judgment must be considered in determining whether the trial court abused its discretion as to either of those issues.' The trial court's decision, however, is subject to appellate review and revision. "Factors for a trial court to consider in determinations regarding alimony and property division include the earning ability of the parties and their future prospects, their ages and health, the duration of the marriage, their standard of living, the marital properties and their sources, values and types, and the conduct of the parties in relation to the marriage.... Additionally, a property division is not required to be equal but must be equitable in light of the evidence, and what is equitable rests within the sound discretion of the trial court."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willing v. Willing“Factors for a trial court to consider in determinations regarding alimony and property division include the earning ability of the parties and their future prospects, their ages and health, the duration of the marriage, their standard of living, the marital properties and their sources, values and types, and the conduct of the parties in relation to the marriage.... Additionally, a property division is not required to be equal but must be equitable in light of the evidence, and what is equitable rests within the sound discretion of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Willing v. Willing“interrelated and `the entire judgment must be considered in determining whether the trial court abused its discretion as to either of those issues.' Kelley v. Kelley, 579 So.2d 1362, 1363 (Ala.Civ.App.1991).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Austin v. Austin
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.