Ladner v. Ladner’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Armstrong v. Armstrong (1993), 564 So. 2d 1346 - Palmer v. Biloxi Regional Medical Center, Inc. (1990)
49 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 437 So. 2d 19 - Box v. State · S. H. Kress & Co. v. Sharp · W. Willard Wirtz, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor v. Continental Finance & Loan Co. Of West End · Padovani v. Bruchhausen · Bell v. Swift & Co.
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he guilty spouse must be so addicted to the use of drugs that [s]he cannot control h[er] appetite for drugs whenever the opportunity to obtain drugs is present. However, we consider it a justifiable excuse for such behavior where ... the defendant is prescribed such drugs by a physician for legitimate reasons.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A complainant must prove (1) that the guilty spouse’s use of drugs was habitual in that it was customarily and frequently indulged; (2) that the guilty spouse’s drug use was so excessive that [s]he did not have the ability to control h[er] appetite for drugs; and, (3) that the drugs used were morphine or opium or comparable ... in effect.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[S]uch factors as the guilty spouse’s inability to support his wife and family or to properly attend to business should be considered. Additionally, the guilty spouse’s incapacity to perform other marital duties or his causing the marital relationship to be repugnant to the innocent spouse are equally important.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Carambat v. Carambat
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.