Welsh v. Welsh’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 2005 · most notably 300 So. 2d 719 - Brown v. Brown (1974), Bredin v. Bredin (1956)
40 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 Strauss v. Strauss · Van Loon v. Van Loon · Duss v. Duss · Holmes v. Atlantic Natl. Bk. of Jacksonville · Heath v. Heath
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It is not denied that she worked or that she was instrumental in placing in the store for sale a special line of cosmetics; also that she cooked some hams about the home and the same were sold to customers of the business. It is contended that this service increased the business of the store and resulted in the husband's property increasing in value many thousands of dollars during the eight years she was about the store." "It is the writer's view that the evidence showing a special equity in behalf of the wife in the husband's property for the services rendered falls far short of the requirements set out in our adjudications."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Roberts“"In Heath v. Heath, 103 Fla. 1071 , 138 So. 796 , 82 A.L.R. 537 , this Court applied the doctrine of a special equity in behalf of the wife where it was established that she contributed materially in funds and industry through a period of years to the husband's holdings and business. Such an allowance is not alimony and is only warranted by special facts and circumstances in favor of the wife for the wife's contributions of money and services to the husband's property accumulations, above and beyond the performance of marital duties. " (Emphasis ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"If any of the causes of divorce set forth in § 65.04 shall exist in favor of the wife, and she be living apart from her husband, she may obtain alimony without seeking a divorce upon bill filed and suit prosecuted as in other chancery causes; and the court shall have power to grant such temporary and permanent alimony and suit money as the circumstances of the parties may render just; but no alimony shall be granted to an adulterous wife."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bredin v. Bredin
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.