523 So. 2d 764 - Fiveash v. Fiveash’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently November 2003
9 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 513 So. 2d 1325 - Dwyer v. Dwyer · 509 So. 2d 364 - Brooks v. State · 510 So. 2d 369 - Gepfrich v. Gepfrich · 503 So. 2d 384 - Benson v. Benson · 506 So. 2d 81 - Kooser v. Kooser
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(3) To the extent necessary to protect an award of alimony, the court may order any party who is ordered to pay alimony to purchase or maintain a life insurance policy or a bond, or to otherwise secure such alimony award with any other assets which may be suitable for that purpose.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Does § 61.08(3) Florida Statutes (1985) authorize a trial court to require an alimony paying spouse to maintain a life insurance policy securing said alimony award, such that upon the death of the paying spouse the receiving spouse is only entitled to receive from the insurance the sum total of any existing alimony arrearages?”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McMath v. McMath“not ascribe to the belief that the legislature only intended such an insurance policy to cover any arrearages existing at the time of the paying spouse's death.”
1 later decision 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.