533 So. 2d 1009 - Godwin v. Godwin’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently February 2019
14 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 483 So. 2d 1197 - Davezac v. Davezac · Succession of Conway · Boyle v. Boyle · 478 So. 2d 532 - Depner v. Depner · 207 So. 2d 190 - Desselle v. Petrossi
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he good will (sic) of [which] is an incidental property right connected with the business and capable of sale and transfer from one owner to the other.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the probability that the customers of the old establishment will continue their patronage.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the case sub judice, [husband] was granted a considerable extension to file his descriptive list”
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.