Bosem v. Bosem’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently July 2012 · most notably Becker v. King (1975), 345 So. 2d 371 - Pfohl v. Pfohl (1977)
60 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 40 Wis. 2d 632 - Foregger v. Foregger · Allison v. Allison · 249 Cal. App. 2d 623 - Franklin Life Ins. Co. v. Kitchens · 84 So. 2d 17 - Lindley v. Lindley · 154 So. 2d 717 - Putman v. Putman
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"First, the District Court found that the award of $100,000 in the form of lump sum alimony to Mrs. Bosem in addition to substantial periodic alimony represented an abuse of discretion on the part of the trial judge. We cannot agree. Fla. Stat. § 61.08 , F.S.A. (1969), provides: `In every judgment of divorce in an action by the wife, the court shall make such orders about maintenance, alimony and suit money of the wife, or any allowance to be made to her, and if any, the security to be given therefor, as from the circumstances of the parties and nature of the case is equitable... In any award of permanent alimony the court has jurisdiction to order periodic payments or payment in lump sum or both.' "The trial judge had wide discretion, as trier of the facts, to determine what alimony arrangement would be most equitable. He had before him the financial statements of both parties, and the record of the parties' relationship." 279 So.2d 864 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as security for the support of his minor children in the event of his death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Eberly v. Eberly
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.