Blais v. Blais’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · Wissner v. Wissner · Ridgway v. Ridgway · 357 So. 2d 172 - In Re Inquiry Concerning a Judge, Etc. · 345 So. 2d 352 - McAllister v. McAllister
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since alimony is a result of the common law obligation of a husband to provide necessities to his wife and the common law support obligation terminates upon the death of the husband, [ Aldrich, ] there is now a well established rule that an obligation to pay alimony ceases upon the death of the obligor in the absence of an express agreement. [ O'Malley. ] Since a trial judge cannot ordinarily award alimony to continue after death, provisions of dissolution judgments requiring the maintenance of life insurance for the benefit of a former spouse have been condemned as being tantamount to post-mortem alimony. [citations omitted] [footnotes omitted]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.