520 So. 2d 87 - Waldman v. Waldman’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently May 2012 · most notably 574 So. 2d 1376 - Lawrence v. Lawrence (1991), 904 So. 2d 384 - Acker v. Acker (2005)
38 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 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · 399 So. 2d 1137 - Vey v. Bradford Union Guidance Clinic, Inc. · 476 So. 2d 671 - Marquez v. State · Mize v. State · 397 So. 2d 775 - Nationwide Mut. Ins. v. Ed Soules Const. Co.
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n petitioning to modify alimony, the moving party must show three fundamental prerequisites. First, there must be a substantial change in circumstances. Second, the change was not contemplated at the time of the final judgment of dissolution. Third, the change is sufficient, material, involuntary, and permanent in nature.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here must be a showing that the national problem of inflation impacts specifically on the individual claiming inflation as the basis for modification. Inflation must have in fact created a need.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he change in financial circumstances must be meaningful, relating to the needs of the spouse receiving the alimony and the ability of the other spouse to pay.”
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.