Scapin v. Scapin’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2008
21 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 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · 471 So. 2d 1274 - Bowen v. Bowen · 495 So. 2d 863 - Broward County Board of County Commissioners v. State, Department of Environmental Regulation · 502 So. 2d 477 - Ward v. Ward · 347 So. 2d 789 - Bradley v. Bradley
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... based upon his or her recent work history, occupational qualifications, and prevailing earnings level in the community; however, the court may refuse to impute income to a primary residential parent if the court finds it necessary for the parent to stay home with the child.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“Before the court may impose financial obligations upon a spouse, it must determine that he or she has the ability to pay the obligations imposed.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“provided that the trial judge and not the former wife determines whether the contemnor has failed to comply with purge provisions contained in its contempt order and whether the contemnor has the present ability to comply before incarceration is ordered.”
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.