539 So. 2d 1177 - Irwin v. Irwin’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently April 2000
8 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 531 So. 2d 161 - Poore v. State · O'Neal v. O'Neal · 520 So. 2d 87 - Waldman v. Waldman · 491 So. 2d 614 - Howerton v. Howerton
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"in a petition for modification [seeking increased alimony] the recipient's need [as established by the standard of living maintained during the marriage] is the sine qua non of the determination; unless and until it is established that there has been a substantial increase in need, [the paying spouse's] ability to pay must not be considered. Once that need is established, the question is whether or not [the paying spouse] has the ability to meet that increased need, in whole or in part. To hold otherwise improperly grants the alimony recipient a continuing interest in the former spouse's good fortune."”
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.