Nicolas v. Nicolas’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently January 2018
10 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 Chisholm v. Chisholm · 48 N.J. Super. 566 - Gosschalk v. Gosschalk · 46 So. 2d 464 - Pawley v. Pawley · Wade v. Wade · Pennsylvania ex rel. Master v. Baldi
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A]n alien’s foreign citizenship or non-permanent immigration status in this country does not constitute in itself an absolute residency bar to the maintenance of a marriage dissolution action by the alien in the Florida courts, although these factors are certainly evidentiary on the issue of domiciliary intent under Section 61.021, Florida Statutes (1981).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“"Our statute, 65.02, Florida Statutes 1941, F.S.A., reads, "In order to obtain a divorce the complainant must have resided ninety days in the State of Florida before the filing of the bill of complaint." (Italics supplied.) It is obvious that the word resided could not properly be construed to encompass citizenship in a legal sense because one may come to this State, establish a bona fide residence of ninety days, thereafter institute a divorce action and have it heard and conclusively adjudicated on its merits before he could under the law become a citizen and enjoy all the privileges of citizenship. On the other hand, a person might reside in Florida many years and never become a citizen of this State or renounce his citizenship in a foreign jurisdiction. Indeed, failure to renounce pre-existing citizenship is nothing more than a circumstance to be considered in connection with the question of the bona fides of the plaintiff's residence which is the real test under our statutory law.... Citizenship is not a statutory jurisdictional prerequisite for divorce and neither of the words `citizen' or `citizenship' can be read into our statute."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“This conclusion is in accord with the overwhelming weight of authority on this subject throughout the country.”
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.