44 So. 2d 656 - Provus v. Provus’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably 345 So. 2d 371 - Pfohl v. Pfohl (1977), 68 So. 2d 821 - Reid v. Reid (1953)
26 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 Marion Mortgage Co. v. Moorman · Cohn v. Cohn · 38 So. 2d 60 - Rainey v. Rainey · 38 So. 2d 222 - Garlick v. Garlick · Gulfstream Park Racing Ass'n v. Clark
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Fixing the amount of counsel fees, as a general rule always presents a delicate question. Under our adjudications some of the elements usually considered are: services rendered, responsibility incurred, the nature of the services, the skill required, the circumstances under which it was rendered, the ability of the litigants to respond, the value of the services to the client, and the beneficial results, if any, of the services. Our leaders of the bench and bar have never accepted as a yardstick of measurement of attorney fees the myth that all the property of the payee should be appropriated for its payment, but only so much thereof as will compensate for services rendered. The allowance made should square with fairness and justice to all alike under similar conditions and circumstances. * * *”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.