545 So. 2d 725 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Newell v. Hinton (1990), 564 So. 2d 839 - Cumberland v. Cumberland (1990)
33 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 418 So. 2d 764 - McKee v. McKee · 437 So. 2d 410 - Tedford v. Dempsey · 480 So. 2d 1120 - Carr v. Carr · 498 So. 2d 1218 - Dunaway v. Busbin · 519 So. 2d 891 - Carpenter v. Carpenter
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a sum sufficient to secure a competent attorney is the criterion by which we are directed. The fee depends on ... relative financial ability of the parties, the skill and standing of the attorney employed, the nature of the case and novelty and difficulty of the questions at issue, as well as the degree of responsibility involved in the management of the cause, the time and labor required, the usual and customary charge in the community, and the preclusion of other employment by the attorney due to the acceptance of the case.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[Mr. Johnson] cannot, without sanction of the court, decide when or how [he] will comply with court judgments.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]ith respect to issues of fact where the chancellor made no specific finding,”
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.