403 So. 2d 129 - Diamond v. Diamond’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently July 2004
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 Scott v. Scott · 186 So. 2d 462 - Wansley v. Schmidt · Fortenberry v. Fortenberry · Millsaps v. Pfeiffer · 348 So. 2d 431 - Fondren v. Batton
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 court may, in its discretion, having regard to the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case, as may seem equitable and just, make all orders ... touching the maintenance and alimony of the wife or the husband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“make all orders ... touching the maintenance and alimony of the wife or the husband... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“willing and able to pay $350 per month as child support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Massey v. Huggins
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.