498 So. 2d 328 - Dillon v. Dillon’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
98 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 98 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson (1994), 517 So. 2d 1346 - Lockett v. State (1987)
98 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 Culbreath v. Johnson · 431 So. 2d 1139 - Cheek v. Ricker · McCraney v. McCraney · 471 So. 2d 1206 - Kergosien v. Kergosien · Devereaux v. Devereaux
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 98 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n order to grant a divorce on the ground of adultery, adultery must be proven by clear and convincing evidence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“Unless the Chancellor's determination of fact is manifestly wrong, this Court will uphold his decision.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where chancellors make such findings of fact, this Court has consistently held that their decisions will not be set aside on appeal unless they are manifestly wrong.”
4 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.