424 So. 2d 32 - Wolfe v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis

1982

Citation profile

cited by 27 later decisions

states following

September 1998

most recently cited

27 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on American States Insurance v. Piasecki · 402 So. 2d 606 - State v. Hawkins · 309 So. 2d 26 - Lee v. Lee · 384 So. 2d 1258 - O'MALLEY v. Pan Am. Bank of Orlando · 383 So. 2d 700 - Turner v. Turner

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

“[t]he deduction by [the husband] of the payments was permissible only if the payments were alimony and not part of a property settlement agreement.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
e.g. Filipov v. Filipov · 695 So. 2d 439 - Kidd v. Kidd
“we look to the intent of the parties `by examining the plain language of the agreement, its surrounding circumstances, and the parties' apparent purpose.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. 561 So. 2d 327 - Gardner v. Edelstein
“in such agreements between spouses, if the parties desire that the wife be paid alimony without the payments being modifiable, they should express it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
e.g. Bassett v. Bassett

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.