Petty v. Petty’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2016
12 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 · 506 So. 2d 1039 - In re Code of Judicial Conduct, Canon 6C(1) · 488 So. 2d 62 - Williams v. State · Burgess v. State · 64 So. 2d 281 - Underwood v. Underwood
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he test for determining when periodic payments constitute support or a methodology for division of property, seems to be whether the payor spouse's payments are given in exchange for a reciprocal exchange of property interests from the recipient spouse.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“entered into voluntarily after full disclosure and then ratified by the trial court, is a contract subject to interpretation like any other contract.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kelson v. Kelson
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.