651 So. 2d 21 - Culver v. Culver’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently September 2018
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 Porter v. Porter · 597 So. 2d 1373 - Borders v. Borders
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.
“"Agreements reached in divorce actions are as binding on the parties as any other contract. Porter [ v. Porter , 441 So.2d 921 (Ala.Civ.App. 1983)]. A trial court has the discretionary authority to permit a party to repudiate its agreement for good cause shown. Porter . Good cause includes 'fraud, collusion, accident, surprise or some other ground of this nature.' Borders v. Borders , 597 So.2d 1373 (Ala.Civ.App. 1992)."”
3 later decisions 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.