Klein v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently April 2007 · most notably Firestone v. Firestone (1972), Sisson v. Sisson (1976)
35 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 72 So. 2d 671 - Pross v. Pross · 96 So. 2d 663 - Lauderdale v. Lauderdale · 52 So. 2d 908 - McRae v. McRae · 58 So. 2d 166 - Garfield v. Garfield · 163 Pa. Super. 629 - Jackson v. Jackson
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where the head of a family by supplying money over a period of years, establishes and maintains a standard of living on a certain financial level, it may be inferred, in the absence of a sufficient showing to the contrary, that he has a source of income or financial status sufficient to enable him to continue to maintain his spouse in substantially the same manner of living.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“* * * * * * "On reviewing a question as to the correctness or reasonableness of a chancellor's allowance of alimony, made after trial of the cause before him, the appellate court should not substitute its judgment for that of the chancellor. Alimony awards should not be reversed or revised unless they represent an abuse of discretion or are unsupported by material competent evidence. See, e.g., Pross v. Pross, Fla. 1954, 72 So.2d 671 . But when the wife's needs can be supplied by the husband, based on his income as it is established and disclosed by his living expenditures during prior years, then in the absence of a full disclosure by the husband showing his inability to pay, the wife should not be deprived of amounts she needs for her support because of a husband's contention of inability to pay, which is contrary to the manifest weight of the evidence bearing on the point. " (Emphasis supplied) * * * * * *”
3 later decisions 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.