Gallagher v. Gallagher’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 1990
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · 379 So. 2d 949 - Duncan v. Duncan · 300 So. 2d 719 - Brown v. Brown
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A trial judge should ensure that neither spouse automatically passes from misfortune to prosperity or from prosperity to misfortune, nor in the totality of circumstances should one spouse be "shortchanged." Gallagher at 77 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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