Walker v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently January 2017
8 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 602 So. 2d 344 - IMED Corp. v. Systems Engineering Assoc. · 589 So. 2d 687 - Tuscaloosa County Com'n v. Deputy Sheriffs · Brooks v. Peoples Nat. Bank of Huntsville · REYNOLDS v. BIRNBAUM · 464 So. 2d 527 - Nicholas v. Nicholas
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.
“"In 1995 our legislature amended § 30-2-51 , Ala. Code 1975, effective January 1, 1996, to address the division of a spouse's retirement benefits. . . . "Pursuant to § 30-2-51 (b), a trial court has discretionary authority, if the conditions of § 30-2-51 (b)(1), (2), and (3) are met , to include the present value of any current or future retirement benefits that a spouse has a vested interest in or is receiving."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“arises out of the transaction or occurrence that is the subject matter of the opposing party's claim and does not require for its adjudication the presence of third parties of whom the court cannot acquire jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In 1995 our legislature amended § 30-2-51 , Ala. Code 1975, effective January 1, 1996, to address the division of a spouse's retirement benefits. . . .”
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.