Saunders v. Saunders’s Empirical Analysis
1966
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently May 2018
4 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 Floyd v. Floyd · Dykes v. Dykes · Grace v. Grace · 122 So. 2d 30 - Ginsberg v. Ginsberg · 168 So. 2d 554 - State Ex Rel. Byrd v. Anderson
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the case sub judice the complaint alleges and the answer denies that appellant’s wife was guilty of desertion. No evidence on this issue was offered or submitted by either party. The only proof before the chancellor at the hearing on appellee’s petition for temporary alimony, suit money and attorneys fees was her affidavit relating to the faculties of the parties. <(* * * “* * * [W]e conclude and so hold that appellee’s answer to the complaint, her petition and affidavit, when read together, sufficiently refute the charge of desertion made by appellant’s complaint, appear to be well-founded, and the chancellor did not abuse his discretion or violate any fundamental principles of law in making the allowance he did of temporary alimony, attorneys fees or court costs.””
1 later decision 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.