471 So. 2d 612 - Seitz v. Seitz’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently February 2016 · most notably 608 So. 2d 838 - Ugarte v. Ugarte (1992), 515 So. 2d 1298 - Gustafson v. Jensen (1987)
36 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 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · 419 So. 2d 1194 - Thomas v. Ratiner · Firestone v. Firestone · Sisson v. Sisson · Klein v. Klein
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The purpose of section 61.16, Florida Statutes (1983), which allows an award of attorney's fees, is to assure that each party has a similar ability to secure competent counsel. The award, therefore, depends not upon who "wins," but rather upon the relative financial circumstances of the parties. The trial court's fifty-fifty distribution of the assets in the present case places the parties in equal financial positions and, therefore, the award of attorney's fees to the wife was error.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“Where the head of a family by supplying money over a period of years, establishes and maintains a standard of living on a certain financial level, it may be inferred, in the absence of a sufficient showing to the contrary, that he has a source of income or financial status sufficient to enable him to continue to maintain his spouse in substantially the same manner of living.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the court is justified in holding that he has funds which are not visible.”
1 later decision 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.