718 So. 2d 80 - Powell v. Powell’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently September 2018
19 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 557 So. 2d 1249 - Bean v. Craig · 398 So. 2d 267 - Taylor v. Taylor · 496 So. 2d 91 - Tidwell v. Tidwell · 563 So. 2d 1059 - Dees v. State · 373 So. 2d 869 - Jim Walter Homes, Inc. v. Holman
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The question whether an order appealed from is final is jurisdictional, and the reviewing court, on a determination that the order is not final, has a duty to dismiss the case on its own motion.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“terminal decision which demonstrates there has been a complete adjudication of all matters in controversy between the litigants.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“' " '[i]t is a well-established rule that, with limited exceptions, an appeal will lie only from a final judgment which determines the issues before the court and ascertains and declares the rights of the parties involved.' " Powell v. Powell , 718 So.2d 80 , 82 (Ala. Civ. App. 1998), quoting Taylor v. Taylor , 398 So.2d 267 , 269 (Ala. 1981). "A ruling that relates to fewer than all the parties in a case, or that determines fewer than all the claims, is ordinarily not final as to any of the parties or as to any of the claims.”
4 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.