689 So. 2d 194 - Stringer v. Stringer’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2017
6 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 ITT Gilfillan v. Clayton · Menchaca v. Chrysler Credit Corp. · State ex rel. Markley v. Baldwin · 369 So. 2d 523 - Borland v. Sanders Lead Co., Inc. · 559 So. 2d 1084 - Adams v. Boan
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"`Courts of this state closely scrutinize claims of common law marriage and require clear and convincing proof thereof.' Baker v. Townsend , 484 So.2d 1097 , 1098 (Ala.Civ.App. 1986), citing Walton v. Walton , 409 So.2d 858 (Ala.Civ.App. 1982). A trial judge's findings of facts based on ore tenus evidence are presumed correct, and a judgment based on those findings will not be reversed unless they are found to be plainly and palpably wrong. Copeland v. Richardson , 551 So.2d 353 , 354 (Ala. 1989). The trial court's judgment must be viewed in light of all the evidence and all logical inferences therefrom, and it "will be affirmed if, under any reasonable aspect of the testimony, there is credible evidence to support the judgment." Adams v. Boan , 559 So.2d 1084 , 1086 (Ala. 1990) (citation omitted).' " Lofton v. Estate of Weaver , 611 So.2d 335 , 336 (Ala. 1992)."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'present, mutual agreement to permanently enter the marriage relationship to the exclusion of all other relationships'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“'public recognition of the relationship as a marriage and public assumption of marital duties and cohabitation.'”
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.