519 So. 2d 891 - Carpenter v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2004 · most notably Armstrong v. Armstrong (1993), 639 So. 2d 909 - Hemsley v. Hemsley (1994)
41 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 418 So. 2d 764 - McKee v. McKee · Brabham v. Brabham · Tutor v. Tutor · Schilling v. Schilling · 383 So. 2d 827 - Walters v. Walters
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) The health of the husband and his earning capacity; (2) The health of the wife and her earning capacity; (3) The entire sources of income of both parties; (4) The reasonable needs of the wife; (5) The reasonable needs of the child; (6) The necessary living expenses of the husband; (7) The estimated amount of income taxes the respective parties must pay on their income; (8) The fact that the wife has the free use of the home, furnishings, and automobile; and (9) Such other facts and circumstances bearing on the subject that might be shown by the evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“if a wife is financially able to pay her attorney, she is not entitled to an attorney fee award.”
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.