Firestone v. Firestone’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
91 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 92 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently May 2016 · most notably 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris (1980), Time, Inc. v. Firestone (1976)
91 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 Quinn v. Phipps · In Re Estate of Yohn · Chastain v. Chastain · Kahn v. Kahn · Diem v. Diem
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 92 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] trial court's judgment ... should be affirmed if the record as a whole discloses any reasonable basis, reason or ground on which the judgment can be supported.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"The primary criteria to be used in establishing the amount of alimony is the husband's ability to pay as above described, and the needs of the wife taking into consideration the standard of living shared by the parties to the marriage." Firestone v. Firestone, Fla. 1972, 263 So.2d 223, 226 .”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Sisson v. Sisson · Dash v. Dash“"Unfortunately, when the dance of marriage has reached its `fine' and the time arrives to pay the fiddler, the predilections for unrestrained pleasures, more often than not, then turn into hues and cries of poverty and despair. Nonetheless, cloth must be cut to fit the pattern, and if excessive indulgences, as a customary norm, accompany private wealth they may very well establish a pattern."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.