343 So. 2d 945 - Smithwick v. Smithwick’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently January 2016 · most notably 377 So. 2d 798 - Armour v. Allen (1979), 388 So. 2d 1261 - Fox v. Haislett (1980)
47 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 98 So. 2d 334 - Cortina v. Cortina · Teta v. Teta · Petrucci v. Petrucci · 220 So. 2d 640 - Gottesman v. Gottesman · Feder v. Feder
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The right of the wife to payment of ... child support in arrears is vested and while it is within the discretion of the court to refrain from holding the husband in contempt for non-payment, the wife is entitled to enforcement of the payments by legal process and by such equitable remedies as the trial court may determine to be appropriate or necessary."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[E]nforcement of payment of arrears of child support or alimony is a matter resting in the sound discretion of the court to be determined on equitable considerations, including the financial status of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“is without jurisdiction to modify child support ... payments where no pleading is filed directed to modifications thereof”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.