336 So. 2d 10 - Gall v. Gall’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “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 marriage. 307 So.2d at 243 . See Sisson v. Sisson, 336 So.2d 1129 (Fla.1976); Gall v. Gall, 336 So.2d 10 (Fla. 2d DCA 1976).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Maissen v. Maissen