Willing v. Willing’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 810 So. 2d 631 - Ex Parte Fann (2001), 869 So. 2d 486 - Fell v. Fell (2003)
45 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 486 So. 2d 408 - Hall v. Mazzone · Andrews v. Andrews · 504 So. 2d 737 - Fanning v. Fanning · 625 So. 2d 433 - Alexander v. Alexander · 602 So. 2d 429 - Brown v. Brown
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“' "The trial court is in the ... position of discerning the demeanor and other like intangibles which do not transfer so readily in a transcript.' Shepherd v. Shepherd , 531 So.2d 668 , 671 (Ala. Civ. App. 1988). Stated another way, "the deference given to the trial court by the ore tenus rule is, in part, due to the trial court's unique position to see and/or hear something that may not be apparent on the face of the written record.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“"`The trial court has wide discretion over alimony and the division of property, and it may use whatever means are reasonable and necessary to equitably divide the parties' property. Its judgment is presumed correct and will not be reversed unless it is so unsupported by the evidence . . . as to be unjust and palpably wrong. . . . This court must consider the issues of property division and alimony together when reviewing the decision of the trial court, and, because the facts and circumstances of each divorce case are different, this court must also consider the particular facts and circumstances of the case being reviewed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"[m]atters of alimony and property division are interrelated, and the entire judgment must be considered in determining whether the trial court abused its discretion as to either of those issues. Willing v. Willing, 655 So.2d 1064 (Ala. Civ.App.1995)."”
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.