413 So. 2d 788 - Vickers v. Vickers’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2009
14 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 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · 271 So. 2d 7 - Belcher v. Belcher · 383 So. 2d 987 - Wagner v. Wagner · 233 So. 2d 408 - Jelke v. Jelke · Abella-Fernandez v. Abella
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he correct standard by which these amounts are to be assessed is ... the familiar one which balances needs as fixed by the parties' standard of living, on the one hand, and ability to pay, on the other.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“This just-prevent-them-from-going-to-the-poorhouse -until-the-case-is-over view of the legal principle controlling [temporary] awards, which is directly reflected in the inadequacy of the sums provided, is both widely held and thoroughly wrong.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robbie v. Robbie“the husband must continue to support his wife during coverture by paying generally the same expenses (omitting long range and vacation items) and by paying amounts he had been providing prior to their separation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robbie v. Robbie
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.