403 So. 2d 56 - Curtis v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
45 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently April 2017 · most notably Cameron v. Cameron (1982), 464 So. 2d 278 - Tullier v. Tullier (1985)
45 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 Jordan v. Travelers Insurance Company · Houghton v. Hall · 353 So. 2d 249 - Carollo v. Wilson · Betz v. Riviere · Succession of Land
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where separate funds can be traced with sufficient certainty to establish the separate ownership of property paid for with those funds, the separate status of such property will be upheld.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“"And the said Vendee herein, Mrs. Alethia A. Cooper, did declare unto me, said Notary, that she is purchasing the hereinabove described property with her own separate and paraphernal funds, derived by inheritance from her deceased [1] mother, and for her own separate use and benefit, and under her separate administration and control, and the same is to form no part of the community of acquets and gains which now exists between her and her said husband, S.R. Cooper."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“property purchased with both separate and community funds would appear to be community property, unless the amount of community funds used is inconsequential in comparison with the amount of separate funds used.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Gautreau v. Gautreau
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.