Spencer v. Spencer’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1990
13 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 64 So. 2d 281 - Underwood v. Underwood · Orr Ex Rel. Walton v. Orr · 88 So. 2d 551 - Charles Sales Corp. v. Rovenger · 79 So. 2d 426 - Clark v. Clark · 196 So. 2d 111 - Salomon v. Salomon
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is also ample case authority to support the theory that the trial court, in the exercise of its discretion, is not bound by the provisions of a written agreement of the parties relative to alimony, and is not bound to accept the agreement in its entirety, but that the court may accept a portion of such agreement and reject a portion of it. Dawkins v. Dawkins, Fla.App. 1965, 172 So.2d 633 ; ..."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“any matter, not privileged, that is relevant to the subject matter of the pending action ... [and] appears reasonably calculated to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.