Worrell v. Worrell’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2018
12 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 121 Ga. App. 342 - Phillips v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance · DeKalb County v. McFarland · Golden v. Golden · Abou-Issa v. Abou-Issa · Fried v. Fried
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In the absence of any mathematical formula, [factfinders] are given a wide latitude in fixing the amount of alimony and child support, and to this end they are to use their experience as enlightened persons in judging the amount necessary for support “under the evidence as disclosed by the record and all the facts and circumstances of the case.” . . . [Cits.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McCoy v. McCoy“The two controlling factors in determining whether or not an alimony ... award is excessive are the wife's ... need for the award and the husband's ability to pay it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sedehi v. Chamberlin“the husband may be temporarily impoverished.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duncan v. Duncan
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.