628 So. 2d 918 - Grayson v. Grayson’s Empirical Analysis

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23 state decisions

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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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “A trial court possesses an inherent power over its own judgments that enables it to interpret, implement, or enforce those judgments.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Crabtree v. Crabtree · Danzey v. Danzey

2. ““A trial court possesses an inherent power over its own judgments that enables it to interpret, implement, or enforce those judgments. Patterson v. Patterson, 518 So.2d 739 (Ala.Civ.App.1987). If provisions of a property settlement are ambiguous, the court may enter an order clarifying such matters, and such is not a modification of that agreement. Williams v. Williams, 591 So.2d 879 (Ala.Civ.App.1991). Property settlements pursuant to divorce judgments generally are not modifiable; however, this court has held that although a divorce judgment is final for the purpose of appeal, it may also be interlocutory in nature ‘insofar as necessary to implement or enforce the provisions as to final disposition of the property.’ Ha ney v. Haney, 50 Ala.App. 79, 81 , 277 So.2d 356, 358 (1973). In Mayhan v. Mayhan, 395 So.2d 1022 (Ala.Civ.App.1981), this court determined that a post-divorce judgment did not modify the original judgment, rather, it merely clarified or enforced an ambiguous original judgment. “In the case sub judice, the original divorce judgment ordered that the husband ‘pay and be responsible’ for certain debts without specifying the manner in which those debts were to be paid. When the trial court subsequently entered a judgment against the husband for an amount equal to the unpaid credit card debts, it ‘did no more than enforce the original judgment, as it was empowered to do.’ Filer v. Filer, 502 So.2d 698, 701 (Ala.1987). Although the trial court was without jurisdict”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Cornelison v. Cramer

3. “[t]he United States District Court commented in Jones v. Cleland , 515 F.Supp. 212 (N.D. Ala. 1981), that a motion to enforce a judgment is the proper method to pursue the enforcement of that judgment”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bandy v. Scrushy (Ex parte Scrushy)