Klein v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently August 2001
14 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 404 So. 2d 1230 - Lewis v. Lewis · 390 So. 2d 250 - King v. King · Dugas v. Dugas · Beringer v. Beringer · 341 So. 2d 68 - Dubois v. Breaux
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.
““IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that plaintiff, George P. Klein, during the pendency of these proceedings or until the partition of the community, continue paying the mortgage note on the matrimonial domicile, continue paying the utility bills, and reasonable telephone expenses, and continue in force all health insurance and life insurance policies in force at the present time. He is not to make a claim against the community for mortgage payments and she is to be assigned use of the family domicile during the pendency of these proceedings.” [Emphasis added by Court of Appeal.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tschirn v. Tschirn“[a]limony after divorce can be made the subject of a contract and is considered a consent decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McAlpine v. McAlpine
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.