65 So. 3d 421 - Pepper v. Pepper’s Empirical Analysis

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3 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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““ ‘[Alabama’s Parent-Child Relationship Protection] Act does not require the trial court to make specific findings of fact in its judgment, see Clements v. Clements, 906 So.2d 952, 957 (Ala.Civ.App.2005), and, in the absence of specific findings of fact, “ ‘this court must assume that the trial court made those findings necessary to support its judgment.’ ” Id. (quoting Steed v. Steed, 877 So.2d 602, 603 (Ala.Civ.App.2003)).’ “Pepper v. Pepper, 65 So.3d 421, 426 (Ala.Civ.App.2010).””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Larue v. Patterson · Bates v. Bates

2. ““ ‘Our standard of review is well settled. A trial court’s judgment based on ore tenus evidence will be presumed correct and will not be reversed on appeal absent a showing that the trial court acted outside its discretion or that the judgment is unsupported by the evidence so as to be plainly and palpably wrong. Scholl v. Parsons, 655 So.2d 1060, 1062 (Ala.Civ.App.1995). However, when an appellate court is presented with an issue of law, we review the judgment of the trial court as to that issue de novo. Ex parte Perkins, 646 So.2d 46 (Ala.1994).’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Pressley