Singleton v. Singleton’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently October 2018
7 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 Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer · 316 So. 2d 202 - Whitt v. Vauthier · Elchinger v. Elchinger · Davis v. Davis · 415 So. 2d 483 - Vaughan v. Vaughan
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Although the opinion lends support to her argument, we nevertheless believe that Vaughan v. Vaughan, supra , was concerned with the lack of evidence supporting either the husband's testimony or the Trial Judge's finding on the issue of credibility, but not with the question of who has the burden of proof. We do not believe, as counsel for Mrs. Singleton argues, that Vaughan stands as authority for the rule that the husband has the burden of proof to show payments. If this were true, all the wife would have to do is allege non-payment, and, without more, the husband would be required to go forward to prove payments. We believe the wife as the moving party must first substantiate her claim with credible and supportive testimony and that Vaughan stands for the rule that when the wife gives credible testimony that supports her claim, the mere `bald statement' of the husband that he has made `some payment' is insufficient to rebut the wife's testimony. In the Vaughan case, the wife testified first, and, as the Court pointed out, her testimony was both credible and unequivocal. In that case, the husband's testimony was uncorroborated; he did not offer other evidence of payments. The absence of either receipts or cancelled checks, and his failure to testify as to times and dates when he made payments made his testimony unworthy of belief. Because the husband would ordinarily have corroborative evidence such as cancelled checks, cash receipts, money order stubs, and in some instance”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“offered a good deal more proof than a 'bald statement' of payments.' " Id. Finally, we observed that "the question of whether the husband had paid child support is ultimately one of credibility. The Trial Judge chose to believe the husband.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“offered a good deal more proof than a 'bald statement' of payments.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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