Clark v. Clark’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
29 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson (1994), 639 So. 2d 909 - Hemsley v. Hemsley (1994)
29 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 278 So. 2d 446 - Jenkins v. Jenkins · Drummonds v. Drummonds · Cox v. Cox · Pierce v. Pierce
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Under these circumstances, the wife, helpmate and co-worker who is forced out of the marriage partnership through no fault of her own is entitled to a fair, equitable and just allowance. This can be accomplished in the discretion of the chancellor . .. by either a lump-sum award, plus monthly alimony payments or monthly alimony payments of such a substantial nature that it reflects not only the husband's duty to care for his former wife ... but also her share in the jointly accumulated assets. .. .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“At the beginning of the marriage [the parties] had no assets and the husband made a salary of $85 per week. At the time of the divorce the [husband] admitted assets of $800,000. The [wife's] worth was meager by comparison. It seems to us in a case such as this where the wife has contributed to the accumulation of the property of her husband, doing her part as a housewife, it would not be improper that she be allowed a reasonable amount as lump sum alimony on retrial.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We hasten to add that short of death or remarriage, the ... duration of an alimony award ... is entirely within the sound discretion of the chancellor.”
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.