Cassidy v. Cassidy’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
31
cited by 31 later decisions
1
states following
November 1997
most recently cited
31 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Viser v. Viser · 282 So. 2d 119 - Malone v. Malone · Holliday v. Holliday · Hill v. Hill · Golson v. Golson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“has not sufficient income for maintenance pending suit”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]limony pendente lite should continue during the pendency of an appeal until the divorce judgment becomes definitive.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he litigation between the Cassidys was still pending; as long as suit was pending Mr. Cassidy should have continued paying Mrs. Cassidy alimony pendente lite until death or a definitive resolution of the divorce litigation.”
3 later decisions 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.