Savell v. Savell’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 1995
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 Haney v. Legg · Ryals v. Douglas · Shrader v. Shrader · 236 So. 2d 430 - Stevens v. Hill · Clark v. Clark
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.
“The court may ... order the surrender of the possession of a family home to a wife and children as an incident to their support by way of providing necessary shelter or lodging.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... [T]here must be a material or substantial change in the circumstances of the parties to justify changing the original decree or making a new one.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The awarding of the use and occupancy of the home place to the [wife] was an integral part of the support due by a husband to his wife.”
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.