Sisson v. Sisson’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently December 1995 · most notably 367 So. 2d 1016 - Williamson v. Williamson (1979), 382 So. 2d 52 - Blum v. Blum (1980)
43 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 Firestone v. Firestone · Chastain v. Chastain · Kahn v. Kahn · Klein v. Klein · 54 So. 2d 36 - Schiff v. Schiff
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Application of the rules for determining alimony is primarily the responsibility of the trial court, which is acquainted first hand with the evidence, and is also in a position to know local economic conditions. * * * * * * In the absence of a clear showing of abuse of discretion, the judgment of the trial court should [be] upheld, regardless of the merits of the alimony award, considered de novo.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kennedy v. Kennedy“[T]oday’s woman should be considered capable of earning a living equivalent to her male counterpart. Nevertheless, until the realities catch up with the laudable objective, . . . a divorced wife faced with an everyday concern about the wherewithal to put bread on the table should not be penalized where her former spouse has the ability to help her provide it. 290 So.2d at 147-48 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Maissen v. Maissen
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.