Knight v. Knight’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 1988
5 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 · 103 So. 2d 253 - Platt v. Platt · Webber v. Webber · 54 So. 2d 36 - Schiff v. Schiff · 118 So. 2d 90 - Howard v. Howard
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[W]henever any husband * * * has pursuant to the decree of any court of competent jurisdiction been required to make to his wife any * * * payments [of alimony] and the circumstances of the parties or the financial ability of the husband shall have been changed since the * * * rendition of such decree, * * * the court, after giving both parties an opportunity to be heard, * * shall make such order * * * as justice and equity shall require, with due regard to the changed circumstances and the financial ability of the husband, decreasing or increasing * * * the amount of * * * alimony provided for * * * in such decree."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. Rogers“testimony at the modification hearing shows no such adverse change in the financial condition of defendant or the needs of the plaintiff as to justify the order appealed from. By its terms, the support money allowed plaintiff, now a woman of 56 or 57 years, would be progressively decelerated until August, 1968, at which time it would cease altogether; while the financial condition of defendant, if anything, was shown to have improved since the original decree was entered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. Rogers“to progressively reduce the amounts of alimony until August, 1968, when such payments would cease altogether.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. Rogers
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.