111 So. 2d 70 - Dworkis v. Dworkis’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently September 2017 · most notably Penasquitos Village, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board (1977), Evans-Reid v. District of Columbia (2007)
1 federal appellate · 32 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 Eckenrode v. Pennsylvania Railroad · Lee v. Lee · Kovacs v. Szentes · Kahn v. Kahn · Eckenrode v. Pennsylvania R.
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * ‘The Court’s attention is called to the fact that the appellee is admittedly worth one hundred fourteen thousand * * * dollars. The award for the child was fifteen * * * dollars per week.’ * * * [W] enow hold that the amount of $15 a week which was fixed by the final decree for the support of the 11-year-old minor child was inadequate for his support, and that the assets of the appellee and his. income, as shown on the record, are-adequate to support a more reasonable and realistic allowance for the support of the child, which we hold should be fixed at $30 per week * * *. * * * * * *• “The father was shown to have-assets amounting to $114,000, and formerly to have had a substantial1 income. His present annual income, of approximately $5,000 is derived from certain securities which he owns.* * * “It was argued for appellee that his income was not sufficient from which to pay any increased amount of support. That could be true as to-a large increase, but his income is adequate for the increase provided' for here. Moreover, the size of his annual income is not the full test of appellee’s ability to pay child support. Such ability to pay may also be measured by the size of the maris estate and net worth * * *. * * * * * $ “While the record does not show that the parties lived expensively or extravagantly, it is disclosed that they lived comfortably, paying rentals for their abodes of from $120 a month to $200 a month. On considering the assets and incomes of these partie”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Luedke v. Behringer
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.