Terry v. Terry’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 1980
10 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 Chastain v. Chastain · 113 So. 2d 547 - Kosch v. Kosch · 104 So. 2d 799 - Gullette v. Ochoa · 115 So. 2d 451 - Graves v. Graves
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * * * * "The court initially entering an order requiring one or both parents to make child support payments shall have continuing jurisdiction after the entry of such initial order to modify the amount of the child support payments, or the terms thereof, when such is found to be necessary by the court for the best interests of the child or children, or when such is found to be necessary by the court because there has been a substantial change in the circumstances of the parties." * * * * * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“« * * * A final decree of divorce awarding alimony should not be modified as to alimony without a strong showing that the husband’s ability to pay has depreciated. The burden is upon the complaining party to make this strong showing. Income alone is not necessarily the test in determining ability to pay. As pointed out by the Chancellor in the final decree awarding divorce and fixing alimony, ‘one must consider the nature of his capital assets, as well as his income’.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Simon v. Simon
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.