296 So. 2d 541 - Reback v. Reback’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris (1980), 696 So. 2d 697 - Rosen v. Rosen (1997)
51 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 Fowler v. Fowler · Dash v. Dash · 282 So. 2d 6 - Carmel v. Carmel · Brook v. Brook · 265 So. 2d 414 - Melin v. Melin
Most-quoted passages
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“"The dictionary definition of the word `rehabilitate' is to `restore to a former capacity .. . to put on a proper basis or into a previous good state again'. This word, when applied descriptively to alimony to which a husband or wife may be entitled, assumes necessarily either a previous potential or actual capacity for self-support in the person seeking alimony which has been undeveloped or completely lost during the marriage. The ordinary definition indicates that `rehabilitative' alimony is appropriate in those situations where it is possible for the person to develop anew of redevelop a capacity for self-support, and should be limited in amount and duration to what is necessary to maintain that person through his training or education, or until he or she obtains employment or otherwise becomes self-supporting. The record in the case at bar is devoid of any evidence that Mary Reback will be rehabilitated when she is 61 years old... ." (Footnote references omitted.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“of rehabilitative alimony (under the new dissolution of marriage law) does not spell the”
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.