Lash v. Lash’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently June 2016 · most notably O'Neal v. O'Neal (1982), 392 So. 2d 577 - Colucci v. Colucci (1980)
44 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 296 So. 2d 541 - Reback v. Reback · Rankin v. Rankin · Schwartz v. Schwartz · 290 So. 2d 146 - Schultz v. Schultz · 263 So. 2d 277 - Royal v. Royal
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is apparently a feeling in some circles that the passage of the `no-fault' divorce law in 1971 had the effect of abolishing permanent alimony except where the wife (or the husband, as the case may be) is unable to get a job. We know of no controlling decision to this effect and do not believe it to be the law. The only changes made with respect to alimony were to authorize its payment to either spouse and to permit an award of rehabilitative alimony. The fact that the legislature authorized rehabilitative alimony did not do away with permanent alimony. The provision authorizing rehabilitative alimony simply permits the judge in a proper circumstance to award support to a needy spouse for a limited period of time until she gets back on her feet and becomes self-sustaining. However, rehabilitative alimony presupposes the potential for self support. Reback v. Reback, Fla.App.3rd, 1974, 296 So.2d 541 . Without this capacity there is nothing to which one can be rehabilitated. Schwartz v. Schwartz, Fla.App.3rd, 1974, 297 So.2d 117 . In recent years with the advent of equal employment opportunities for women, many women have been able to acquire higher paying jobs. To that extent there has been less need for the payment of alimony by their former husbands. Yet, it is still the law that where the wife demonstrates the need and the husband has the ability to pay, he is obligated to support her at a standard reasonably commensurate with that established by him during their marri”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ruszala v. Ruszala · Stiff v. Stiff
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