Alexander v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2015 · most notably 547 So. 2d 766 - Nichols v. Tedder (1989), 741 So. 2d 894 - McGilberry v. State (1999)
40 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 Rubisoff v. Rubisoff · Rainwater v. Rainwater · Wilson v. Wilson · 431 So. 2d 1115 - Trunzler v. Trunzler · Hailey v. Holden
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“create a situation of unjust enrichment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[d]uty to support children is upon both parents and it is a continuing duty, both legal and moral in nature, and a vested right of the child growing out of the marriage relation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[c]hild support is awarded to the custodial parent for the benefit and protection of the child, the underlying principle being the legal duty owed to the child for the child's maintenance and best interest.”
2 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.