Sharplin v. Sharplin’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently December 2013
1 federal appellate · 11 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 394 So. 2d 1341 - Wray v. Wray
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“an alimony decree is presumed to provide for periodic alimony unless the decree 'by clear and express language' provides for lump sum alimony. Ideally, a lump sum alimony award will state that the payor spouse must pay a certain total sum, payable in specified monthly installments; however, there is no required form for lump sum alimony.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Very often alimony awards are ambiguous, and it was our view in Wray that if parties wish to have the alimony payments be considered "lump sum” or “gross" alimony as opposed to periodic alimony, terminable upon the death or remarriage of the wife, they should remove the ambiguity by clear, unequivocal language. Otherwise, we will interpret the alimony as periodic.”
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.