Blocker v. Ferguson’s Empirical Analysis

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13 state decisions

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.

1. “We are of the view that the chancellor did not commit error in refusing to grant the motion to dismiss the petition. It is well settled that so long as past-due installments of alimony under a valid decree remain unsatisfied they constitute vested property rights, Van Loon v. Van Loon, 132 Fla. 535 , 182 So. 205 (1938), which are enforceable against the estate of the deceased husband in the manner and by the method provided by law for the enforcement of any other claim or demand against the estate of a decedent. Fields v. Fields, 140 Fla. 269 , 191 So. 512 (1939). And where payment of such a properly filed claim in the probate court is refused or disputed by the personal representative, the claimant has her remedy by bringing in the personal representative as a party to a supplementary proceeding brought for the purpose of adjudicating the validity of the demand, filed in the original suit in which the alimony decree was rendered.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 515 So. 2d 1298 - Gustafson v. Jensen

2. “[w]hen the right to collect money under the terms of a decree has vested, it is not within the province of a court to divest such right.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 608 So. 2d 800 - Gordon v. State

3. “in the manner and by the method provided by law for the enforcement of any other claim or demand against the estate of a decedent.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 88 So. 2d 912 - Van Sciver v. Miami Beach First National Bank