208 So. 2d 137 - Lyons v. Lyons’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2005 · most notably Brandt v. Brandt (1988), Price v. Price (1980)
33 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 72 So. 2d 671 - Pross v. Pross · 96 So. 2d 663 - Lauderdale v. Lauderdale · Williams v. Clyatt · 66 So. 2d 228 - Blue v. Blue · 145 So. 2d 291 - Peteler v. Peteler
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Regarding the residence owned by the parties, which the wife and children were permitted to continue to use and on which the wife was required to pay all expenses including the mortgage payments, we find merit in the appellant’s contention that the court erred in holding that on sale thereof she would be entitled to a credit against the husband only for one half of the reduction of principal of the mortgage which her payments accomplished. The residence property was owned by the parties as tenants by the entirety. Upon divorce they owned it as tenants in common, under § 689.15 Fla.Stat., F.S.A. As such, each had the burden of discharging one half of the obligations thereon. Walker v. Sarven, 41 Fla. 210 , 25 So. 885 . The wife was under no duty to assume and pay the husband’s half of the charges against the property for items such as mortgage interest, taxes, insurance and repairs. For the period she pays the same during pendency of the cause or after decree she should be entitled to credit for the portion thereof allocable to the husband’s interest, to be determined and allowed upon sale of the property. See Williams v. Clyatt, 53 Fla. 987 , 43 So. 441 ; Albury v. Gordon, Fla.App.1964, 164 So.2d 549 ; Johnson v. Johnson, Fla.App.1965, 179 So.2d 112 . Accordingly, upon remand the decree should be modified as indicated.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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