502 So. 2d 477 - Ward v. Ward’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently April 2010
19 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 77 Ill. App. 3d 858 - In Re Marriage of Smith · Smith v. Smith · 377 So. 2d 761 - Desilets v. Desilets · Ellis v. Ellis · Reed v. Reed
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“only when the ability to carry out that obligation [of support] is lessened by circumstances beyond the control of the party required to pay support will such party be entitled to have the amount of the obligation reduced.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arce v. Arce“tired of working, would not work even if a job were available, and was desirous of spending his time hunting, fishing, and puttering in his yard.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arce v. Arce“he was not entitled to have his former wife defray the cost of his retirement through a reduction of his longstanding obligations to her.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Arce v. Arce
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.