Jaffee v. Jaffee’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably 696 So. 2d 697 - Rosen v. Rosen (1997), 520 So. 2d 87 - Waldman v. Waldman (1988)
37 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 Wilkerson v. State · 97 So. 2d 604 - Gendzier v. Bielecki · Lee v. Lee · 392 So. 2d 577 - Colucci v. Colucci · Ross v. Savage
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The reason for this doctrine is an obvious one: if the likelihood of a particular occurrence was one of the factors which the court or the parties considered in initially fixing the award in question, it would be grossly unfair subsequently to change the result simply because the anticipated event has come to pass.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The parties acknowledge that the Wife is a trained registered nurse with supervisory experience, and in the event that the Wife should resume her nursing career in order to supplement her income, such resumption of work by the Wife shall not be the basis for the Husband to seek a reduction in alimony due to the Wife. [emphasis supplied.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bassett v. Bassett“as an attempt to vary the terms of a written document through the insertion of qualifying language which does not appear on its face”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bassett v. Bassett
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.