806 So. 2d 336 - Ex Parte STS’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

28 state decisions

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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “"According to the doctrine of the law of the case, `whatever is once established between the same parties in the same case continues to be the law of that case, whether or not correct on general principles, so long as the facts on which the decision was predicated continue to be the facts of the case.' Blumberg v. Touche Ross & Co., 514 So.2d 922, 924 (Ala.1987).... Because the trial court entered [its] judgment on the same record as that before the Court of Civil Appeals, the facts on which the Court of Civil Appeals' decision was predicated continue to be the facts of the case, and, therefore, the Court of Civil Appeals' conclusions in its ... opinion are the law of the case."”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ex parte Marshall County Department of Human Resources · 956 So. 2d 1142 - STATE DEPT. OF REVENUE v. Hoover, Inc.

2. “`[I]n a custody contest between a nonparent and one who has been adjudicated to be the natural father of a child born out of wedlock, the father is entitled to the presumption that the child's best interests will best be served by an award of custody to him, subject to the absence of a finding that he is unfit and subject to [certain] exceptions....' "Ex parte D.J., 645 So.2d [303] at 306 [(Ala.1994)]. The Terry presumption in favor of the parent in a custody dispute with a nonparent does not apply if the parent has voluntarily relinquished custody or if the court has entered a prior judgment removing custody from the parent.... Id.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 863 So. 2d 1066 - Ex Parte NLR

3. “[b]ecause the trial court entered the ... judgment [on remand] on the same record as that before the Court of Civil Appeals [in the case that led to the remand], the facts on which the Court of Civil Appeals' decision was predicated continue to be the facts of the case, and, therefore, the Court of Civil Appeals' conclusions in its 1999 opinion are the law of the case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Wtm v. Sp