345 So. 2d 586 - Everett v. Everett’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently May 1997
9 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 State v. Theriot · Eaton v. Eaton · 287 So. 2d 789 - Hermes v. Hermes · 192 So. 2d 594 - Clark v. Clark · Barringer v. Dauernheim
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We think that the state does have an interest in having a clear cut determination as to the status of its citizens and it should not recognize a quick divorce obtained by its citizens on overnight trips to foreign countries where attitudes and philosophies of the courts, as well as concepts of substantive and procedural due process, are entirely unknown and probably inconsistent with our own." 345 So.2d 588 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Courts are a bit more sophisticated today and infer that people do what comes naturally when they have the opportunity.”
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.