304 So. 2d 465 - Herbert v. Herbert’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2004
16 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 300 So. 2d 719 - Brown v. Brown · 296 So. 2d 541 - Reback v. Reback · Pryor v. Pryor
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... the husband's petition for modification alleging matters bearing upon a substantial change in his financial circumstances and resulting in the order under review merely prayed for `an order reducing child support and alimony'. The pleadings do not reflect any suggestion or intimation that the husband's obligation to pay alimony should cease because of a [sic] substantial changes in his circumstances or those of his wife. "Nevertheless, the trial court proceeded to terminate the husband's alimony obligation rather than reduce the same during his period of financial inability as prayed for in his petition. The trial court predicated this cessation upon its finding that there was `no justification in extending the husband's obligation for alimony to a woman who is well capable of supporting herself'. This gratuitous determination was inconsistent with the husband's petition for modification and for that matter with every other plead-and prayer for relief filed by the husband in the dissolution proceedings."”
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.