Foreman v. Foreman’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1978
12 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 Holmes v. Atlantic Natl. Bk. of Jacksonville · Heath v. Heath · Simmons v. Simmons
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The learned chancellor gave no reason why he disagreed. The law is settled that adultery will not forfeit the wife’s property, although she is not entitled to alimony. See Heath v. Heath, 103 Fla. 1071 , 138 So. 796 , 82 A.L.R. 537 . The master saw and heard the witnesses; he had every advantage to evaluate the testimony which appears to be sufficient predicate for his conclusion. To merely differ with the fact finder without justification and reason shown will not be approved. There is no indication that the Master misapplied the law to the facts. For the chancellor to waive the findings aside without favoring us with any excuse or reason places us at a loss to find just cause to sustain his decree, and for that reason it is reversed with directions to allow the appellant a just portion of the property in question.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Petersen v. Petersen
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.