371 So. 2d 313 - Compton v. Compton’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 2015
6 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 307 So. 2d 740 - Primeaux v. Libersat · 211 So. 2d 97 - Gouaux v. Gouaux · 339 So. 2d 495 - Barnett v. Barnett
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . The law is well established ■that a husband who spends his separate funds on community property has the right to claim reimbursement from the community for money spent by him for the benefit of the community so long as the community still benefits from this separate contribution at the time of its dissolution. . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Trahan v. Trahan“No evidence was offered to show the actual market value of the Ford Comet which was traded on a 1972 Ford Torino. The trial judge rejected this claim because he found the `trade-in allowance' not to be reliable evidence of true market value.”
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.