374 So. 2d 622 - Murray v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently March 2007
21 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 Hernandez v. Hernandez · Laws v. Laws · 347 So. 2d 478 - Jassy v. Jassy · Robinson v. Robinson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]here was utterly no evidence adduced below that the former wife in this short-term, two-year marriage needed any assistance `to regain the ability for self-support similar to that which previously existed or would have existed except for the marriage of the parties.'”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Edwards v. Edwards · Lewis v. Lewis“a short period of rehabilitative alimony sufficient to allow the wife to `bridge' the gap between the high standard of living enjoyed during the brief marriage and the more modest standard that the wife can provide for herself”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Price v. Price
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.