M.M. v. B.L.’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2015
11 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 351 So. 2d 538 - State Ex Rel. Payne v. Empire Life Ins. Co. · 842 So. 2d 679 - Farmer v. Farmer · 838 So. 2d 1062 - Carter v. Hilliard · 886 So. 2d 45 - Kingvision Pay-Per-View, Ltd. v. Ayers · Transamerican Properties, Inc. v. Watkins
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““(a) Except as otherwise provided by the Alabama Rules of Juvenile Procedure and this section, service of process of termination of parental rights actions shall be made in accordance with the Alabama Rules of Civil Procedure. “(b) If service of process has not been completed within 90 days of the filing of the termination of parental rights petition, the petitioner shall request service by publication. “(c) Service of process by publication may not be ordered by the juvenile court unless the following conditions are met: “(1) The child who is the subject of the proceedings was abandoned in the state. “(2) The state or private department or agency having custody of the child has established, by evidence presented to the juvenile court, that the absent parent or parents are avoiding service of process or their whereabouts are unknown and cannot be ascertained with reasonable diligence. “(d) Service shall be made by publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the county of the juvenile court having jurisdiction and in the county of the last known address of the parent or parents of the abandoned child, at least once a week for four consecutive weeks.””
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.