Laws v. Laws’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently March 2017
18 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 335 So. 2d 5 - Shannon v. State · 357 So. 2d 792 - Merrill v. Merrill · Bickerstaff v. Bickerstaff
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Passage of time and the interest to be served have a way of coloring or changing a person's recollections, but the documentary evidence is not subject to such imperfection and stands as immutable and irrefutable memorials to the true intent of the parties.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is apparent that the trial court was attempting to do `equity' in the case, but in that quest for `equity', the legal rights of the respective parties cannot be trammelled”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The question of donative intent is one of a preponderance of credible evidence”
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.