Ex Parte Jenkins

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the retroactive application of a statute to change the reopening provisions of paternity judgments finalized before the statute was enacted violated the separation-of-powers doctrine
• \`\[A] judgment conclusively resolves the case\ because \a judicial Power\ is one to render dispositive judgments.'\
• \'Any interested party may bring an action at any time for the purpose of determining the existence or non-existence of the father and child relationship.'\(citing A LA . C O D E 1975; § 26-17-6(b))
• applying the anti-retroactivity canon without a threshold finding of ambiguity

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

57 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Ex Parte Cranman
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2000-11-22· cited 428×
• Kirby v. State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2004-08-27· cited 104×
• People v. Bunn
  California Supreme Court· 2002-01-10· cited 89×
• Holt v. State
  Court of Criminal Appeals of Alabama· 2006-03-03· cited 56×
• Town of Cedar Bluff v. Citizens Caring for Children
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2004-12-30· cited 42×
• Birmingham-Jefferson Civic Ctr. Auth. v. City of Birmingham
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2005-05-03· cited 37×
• Muhammad v. Ford
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2007-12-07· cited 31×
• Gallant v. Gallant
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2014-12-19· cited 31×
• McInnish v. Riley
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2005-09-30· cited 28×
• City of Daphne v. City of Spanish Fort
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2003-01-17· cited 27×
• Ex Parte Butler
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2007-03-16· cited 25×
• Ex Parte Chemical Waste Management, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2005-11-18· cited 25×
• Schoenvogel v. Venator Group Retail, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2004-07-09· cited 24×
• Dept. of Environmental Management v. Leaf
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2007-05-11· cited 21×
• S.W.M. v. D.W.M.
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 1998-10-23· cited 18×
• Ex Parte State
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2006-12-22· cited 17×
• Magee v. Boyd
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2015-03-02· cited 16×
• Opinion of the Justices No. 380
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2004-03-31· cited 15×
• Ex Parte King
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 2010-04-23· cited 11×
• S.C.G. v. J.G.Y.
  Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama· 2000-09-08· cited 9×

Cites

75 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Imbler v. Pachtman
  Supreme Court· 1976-03-02· cited 7,274×
• Gagnon v. Scarpelli
  Supreme Court· 1973-05-14· cited 5,755×
• Buckley v. Valeo
  Supreme Court· 1976-02-27· cited 4,982×
• Weaver v. Graham
  Supreme Court· 1981-02-24· cited 2,482×
• Reed v. Reed
  Supreme Court· 1971-11-22· cited 1,968×
• Estes v. Texas
  Supreme Court· 1965-06-07· cited 1,725×
• Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer
  Supreme Court· 1952-06-02· cited 1,646×
• F. S. Royster Guano Co. v. Virginia
  Supreme Court· 1920-06-07· cited 1,251×
• Lampf, Pleva, Lipkind, Prupis & Petigrow v. Gilbertson
  Supreme Court· 1991-09-13· cited 1,199×
• Plaut v. Spendthrift Farm, Inc.
  Supreme Court· 1995-04-18· cited 1,015×
• Kline v. Burke Construction Co.
  Supreme Court· 1922-11-20· cited 1,012×
• Hazel-Atlas Glass Co. v. Hartford-Empire Co.
  Supreme Court· 1944-05-15· cited 1,010×
• Chase Securities Corp. v. Donaldson
  Supreme Court· 1945-06-18· cited 800×
• Sibbach v. Wilson & Co.
  Supreme Court· 1941-01-13· cited 774×
• Caban v. Mohammed
  Supreme Court· 1979-04-24· cited 738×
• Clark v. Jeter
  Supreme Court· 1988-06-06· cited 679×
• Walters v. National Assn. of Radiation Survivors
  Supreme Court· 1985-06-28· cited 527×
• Lalli v. Lalli
  Supreme Court· 1978-12-11· cited 430×
• United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians
  Supreme Court· 1980-06-30· cited 334×
• Moore v. Mobile Infirmary Ass'n
  Supreme Court of Alabama· 1991-09-27· cited 156×