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← 978 SO2D 768 - Downs v. Downs

Downs v. Downs’s Empirical Analysis

2007

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
December 2009
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Graham v. Community Action Agency of North Central Alabama, Inc. · 748 So. 2d 869 - Rogers Foundation Repair, Inc. v. Powell · Michigan Mutual Liability Co. v. Carroll · 466 So. 2d 928 - P & S BUSINESS v. South Cent. Bell Telephone · Vainrib v. Downey

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

  1. “"`"[W]hen a trial court sits in judgment on facts that are undisputed, an appellate court will determine whether the trial court misapplied the law to those undisputed facts." Craig Constr. Co. v. Hendrix, 568 So.2d 752, 756 (Ala.1990).... "`[O]n appeal, the ruling on a question of law carries no presumption of correctness, and this Court's review is de novo. '" Rogers Found. Repair, Inc. v. Powell, 748 So.2d 869, 871 (Ala.1999) (quoting Ex parte Graham, 702 So.2d 1215, 1221 (Ala.1997))....' " Moss v. Williams, 822 So.2d 392, 394-95 (Ala.2001)."”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “`[O]n appeal, the ruling on a question of law carries no presumption of correctness, and this Court's review is de novo. '”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “Moss v. Williams, 822 So.2d 392, 394-95 (Ala.2001).”
    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.