205 So. 2d 276 - Hooker v. Hooker’s Empirical Analysis

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27 state decisions

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “[A] husband may not petition for modification of the original decree without showing either that he has performed it or that his performance has been wholly impossible.... However, a husband may exonerate himself from failure to make alimony or child support payments as ordered because of his inability to pay, but his evidence must be made with particularity and not in general terms.”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bailey v. Bailey · 840 So. 2d 111 - Seeley v. Stafford

2. “[A] former husband may not petition for modification of original divorce decree providing for alimony and child support payments without showing either that he has performed it or that his performance has been wholly impossible.”

   5 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 605 So. 2d 749 - Brennan v. Brennan · 644 So. 2d 435 - Gambrell v. Gambrell

3. “[I]n order to warrant a modification of child support, any material change in circumstances must be such `as reasonably to affect the ability of the parties to abide by it and perform the original decree.'”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Bailey v. Bailey · 701 So. 2d 813 - Poole v. Poole