252 So. 2d 809 - Lang v. Lang’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2010 · most notably 377 So. 2d 798 - Armour v. Allen (1979), 588 So. 2d 428 - Varner v. Varner (1991)
36 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 Lee v. Lee · Posner v. Posner · McMains v. McMains · Sedell v. Sedell · Seraydar v. Commissioner
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he basic right of the minor child to be supported by its parents is not affected by an agreement between the parties with respect to such obligations; `children are not chattels whose rights can be bargained away by parents'; such agreements will be evaluated with the best interest of the child as its criteria.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“We know of no rule of law by which a father [or a mother] may by contract obviate or impair his [or her] obligation to support ... minor children....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) When the parties have entered into, or hereafter enter into, an agreement for payments for, or instead of, support, maintenance, or alimony, whether in connection with a proceeding for dissolution or separate maintenance or with any voluntary property settlement, or when a party is required by court order to make any payments, and the circumstances or the financial ability of either party has changed or the child or children who are beneficiaries of an agreement or court order as described herein have reached the age of 18 years since the execution of such agreement or the rendition of the order, either party may apply to the circuit court of the circuit in which the parties, or either of them, resided at the date of the execution of the agreement or reside at the date of the application, or in which the agreement was executed or in which the order was rendered, for a judgment decreasing or increasing the amount of support, maintenance, or alimony, and the court has jurisdiction to make orders as equity requires, with due regard to the changed circumstances or the financial ability of the parties or the child or children, decreasing, increasing, or confirming the amount of separate support, maintenance, or alimony provided for in the agreement or order.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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