Sobelman v. Sobelman’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 595 So. 2d 214 - Kremer v. Kremer (1992), 910 So. 2d 336 - Byers v. Byers (2005)
52 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 384 So. 2d 1258 - O'MALLEY v. Pan Am. Bank of Orlando · Aldrich v. Aldrich · 513 So. 2d 1325 - Dwyer v. Dwyer · 523 So. 2d 764 - Fiveash v. Fiveash · 509 So. 2d 364 - Brooks v. State
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o 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.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ruberg v. Ruberg · Duffey v. Duffey“[A] court may require an obligated spouse to purchase or maintain life insurance to secure any arrearage owed or `to protect the financial well being of the other spouse' by providing for payment of the entire policy proceeds upon the obligor spouse's death.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“either satisfy arrearages or to otherwise protect the receiving spouse in appropriate circumstances”
3 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.