McNaughton v. McNaughton’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1994
24 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 · Schwartz v. Schwartz · Harder v. Harder · 320 So. 2d 455 - Plant v. Plant · 314 So. 2d 783 - Reisman v. Reisman
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We hold that the trial judge erred in determining that the facts of this case called for rehabilitative alimony. See Reback v. Reback, Fla.App. 1974, 296 So.2d 541 ; and Schwartz v. Schwartz, Fla.App. 1974, 297 So.2d 117 . This 43 year old mother has no income or training. She ought not be required to leave the home and the children in order to gain the means of support when the husband is well able to support his wife and children during the minority of the children. The wife will be 54 years old when the youngest child reaches 18. For the court to determine at this time that the wife can enter the labor market and support herself at that time is a prediction that need not be made at this time because the court may adjust alimony to changed conditions upon a proper petition. During the marriage, the husband maintained a good home and approved of the role of the wife. There is no reason that the dissolution should disrupt the home for the children so long as the husband is well able to maintain them in that home.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The amount of $750 per month as alimony is adequate and that amount is not an abuse of the discretion of the trial judge. See Silvers v. Silvers, Fla.App. 1973, 274 So.2d 555 . Our review of the record reveals no basis for the intermittent reductions in the amount of alimony ... It is not necessary for a trial judge to anticipate changes in the circumstances. The statutes and the case law of this state provide the judge with a wide basis for the change in the amount of alimony where there is a change in financial circumstances or where equity so requires. See Fla. Stat. § 61.14 ; and Nichols v. Nichols, Fla.App. 1974, 304 So.2d 497 . The reduction of alimony from $750 to lesser amounts is an abuse of discretion under the facts of this case.”
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.