628 So. 2d 855 - Ellison v. Ellison’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2014
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 604 So. 2d 353 - McLemore v. Fleming · 456 So. 2d 249 - Ross v. Luton · 553 So. 2d 554 - Ex Parte Melof · 406 So. 2d 946 - Norris v. Norris · Ex Parte Harris
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.
““Our Supreme Court has stated that ‘a trial court may not prohibit a witness from testifying in a divorce case solely because the proposed witness is a child of the parties even though calling children to testify against one of their parents in a divorce case is distasteful and should be discouraged.’ Ex parte Harris, 461 So.2d 1332, 1333 (Ala.1984). (Citation omitted.) As long as a child is otherwise competent to testify, there is no statutory prohibition against the testimony. Harris, supra. ‘Testimony of competent children in a divorce action must be admitted, if relevant, otherwise admissible, and not merely cumulative.’ Harris at 1334. See also Bebee v. Har- grove, 607 So.2d 1270 (Ala.Civ.App.1992).””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Equity decrees may be partly final and partly interlocutory. A decree which ascertains and declares the rights of the parties and settles the equities is a final decree, although it provides for further proceedings under the direction of the court in order to carry the decree into effect. If there is a decree directing further proceedings under the direction of the court in order to make the final decree effective, such decree is interlocutory and remains within the control of the court because as to such decree and further proceedings thereunder the cause remains in fieri."”
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.