367 So. 2d 1016 - Williamson v. Williamson’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably 565 So. 2d 820 - Gentile v. Gentile (1990), 491 So. 2d 1124 - Noah v. Noah (1986)
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 Firestone v. Firestone · Blanton v. Blanton · Engebretsen v. Engebretsen · Sisson v. Sisson · Vilas v. Vilas
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“any conduct of either party which may have caused the difficult economic situation in which they stand before the court”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“any factor necessary to do equity ... between the parties.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[P]etitioner was responsible for his wife's strained economic condition because he abandoned her in 1973, taking with him a considerable portion of the family savings, and because he refused to attempt a reconciliation although respondent remained willing to do so. On this basis, the court concluded that, as a matter of equity, petitioner should bear the heaviest portion of the economic burden placed on both parties by the judgment of dissolution. [Emphasis supplied.]”
2 later decisions 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.