122 So. 2d 199 - Morrison v. Morrison’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
3
states following
April 1979
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Mabson v. Christ · 59 So. 2d 20 - Quality Courts United v. Jones · 109 So. 2d 765 - Stewart v. Berger
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * It is settled principle of law in this state that a court of equity possesses no power to go back and grant a new right or impose a new duty not adjudicated in its former decree after it has become final and absolute. Although the court retains the power to modify by subsequent order the time or manner of the enforcement of a final decree after it has become final, under our rules it does not retain the power, unless specifically provided by statute, to amend, modify or alter the principles of such final decree. If the court intended but failed to include in its decree a provision relieving the father from the payment of support money while the children were in his custody during the summer month, such failure would necessarily be an intrinsic and unverifiable judicial mistake, not subject to change under our cases."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McEachin v. McEachin
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.