Cummings v. Cummings’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently January 2011 · most notably 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris (1980), 696 So. 2d 697 - Rosen v. Rosen (1997)
1 federal appellate · 77 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 252 So. 2d 825 - Steinhauer v. Steinhauer · Hernandez v. Hernandez · 277 So. 2d 583 - Thigpen v. Thigpen · 262 So. 2d 269 - Beard v. Beard · Gordon v. Gordon
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“insure that both parties will have reasonably the same ability to secure competent legal counsel.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“... The new concept of the marriage relation implicit in the so-called "no-fault" divorce law enacted by the legislature in 1971 [Chapter 71-241, Laws of 1971; Chapter 61, F.S.] places both parties to the marriage on a basis of complete equality as partners sharing equal rights and obligations in the marriage relationship and sharing equal burdens in the event of dissolution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"[I]t is evident that the award of lump sum alimony sub judice is unsupported since there is no positive showing of necessity on the wife's part, even though the husband may possess the pecuniary ability to supply the necessity." (Emphasis supplied.)”
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.