Lowe v. Lowe’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently January 2013
5 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 358 So. 2d 919 - Sims v. Sims · Lentz v. Lentz · 391 So. 2d 1193 - Kennedy v. Kennedy · 162 So. 2d 813 - Arcemont v. Arcemont · 396 So. 2d 883 - Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles v. Rault
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he order necessarily envisioned the husband's bearing, as part of alimony and child support, the interest and any tax and insurance components of the monthly mortgage payments (since those items accomplish nothing other than payment, in part, for the use of the double), but not the principal payment. Alimony is not ordinarily intended to provide investment capital for the needy spouse; [sic] Accordingly we would allow the husband's claim [for reimbursement of the house payments], but only for the principal of the mortgage debt on the community double paid by him....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Larsen v. Larsen
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.