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483 So. 2d 455 - Levy v. Levy’s Empirical Analysis

1986

Citation profile

17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
June 1994
most recently cited

17 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · 472 So. 2d 1145 - Florida Patient's Compensation Fund v. Rowe · 280 So. 2d 431 - Hoffman v. Jones · 399 So. 2d 1137 - Vey v. Bradford Union Guidance Clinic, Inc. · Florida Forest & Park Service v. Eston Strickland

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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “almost necessarily lower amount to which the wife has agreed in accordance with her ability to do so,”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “in no case should the court-awarded fee exceed the fee agreement.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “precluded by the rule that a judicially effected change in the law may not be retroactively applied to impair vested rights.”
    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.