Weaver v. Weaver’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2008
13 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 Hayes v. Hayes · Kendrick v. Kendrick · 287 So. 2d 789 - Hermes v. Hermes · 385 So. 2d 316 - Holland v. Aetna Life & Cas. Ins. Co. · Eddie's Hardware, Inc. v. Rago
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A spouse's innocence of immoral acts is presumed and the burden is upon the complaining spouse to prove an adulterous relationship by either direct or circumstantial evidence.... To warrant a divorce on the ground of adultery, circumstantial proof must be so convincing as to exclude any other reasonable hypothesis but that of guilt.... The mere fact that a man and a woman are alone together does not necessarily create a presumption that adultery was committed.... We think there is even less of a presumption of adultery when another man is alone with the other two people.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A judgment of default must be confirmed by proof of the demand sufficient to establish a prima facie case.”
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.