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1979

Citation profile

30
cited by 30 later decisions
1
states following
April 2012
most recently cited

30 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently April 2012 · most notably 392 So. 2d 577 - Colucci v. Colucci (1980), 382 So. 2d 52 - Blum v. Blum (1980)

30 state decisions

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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 334 So. 2d 13 - Shaw v. Shaw · Wells v. Dungey · 335 So. 2d 5 - Shannon v. State · 345 So. 2d 417 - Travelers Indem. Co. of RI v. Mirlenbrink · 360 So. 2d 1244 - Miles v. State

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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[E]vidence [of adultery may not] be employed merely to decrease or enhance an award by way of punishment for conduct of which the court may disapprove, when that conduct is not related to the equitable considerations with which dissolution courts should be concerned under our no-fault law. McAllister v. McAllister, 345 So.2d 352, 354-55 (Fla. 4th DCA 1977), cert. denied, 357 So.2d 186 (Fla. 1978).”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 496 So. 2d 839 - Kenyon v. Kenyon
  2. “it might well be thought improper to permit an errant spouse to destroy a marriage and then to claim benefits equal to those which would have been provided had it remained intact”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 468 So. 2d 995 - Beers v. Public Health Trust of Dade County
  3. “source clearly unconnected with the marital relationship.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. 380 So. 2d 1090 - Bullard v. Bullard

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.