Lenz v. Lenz’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently December 2020 · most notably Weber v. GASN SHOP, INC. (2009), Brandt v. Brandt (1988)
28 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 Guggenmos v. Guggenmos · 331 So. 2d 623 - Jewell v. Jackson & Whitsitt Cotton Co. · Eliker v. Eliker · Vantage Enterprises, Inc. v. Caldwell · Graber v. Graber
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“" 'The rationale behind a rule requiring a judgment to be definite and certain is that the rights and liabilities of the parties to the action must be able to be determined, and the unsuccessful party may readily understand and be capable of performing that which he is ordered to do, from the judgment itself. Additionally, a sheriff or other executing officer must know how much money or property to seize in order to satisfy the debt. If the decree or judgment is silent or ambiguous as to the amount, execution would not be proper.' "”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“a judgment must be sufficiently certain in its terms to be able to be enforced in a manner provided by law. It must be in such a form that a clerk is able to issue an execution upon it which an officer will be able to execute without requiring external proof and another hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Brandt v. Brandt
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.