549 So. 2d 944 - Wing v. Wing’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably 579 So. 2d 543 - Caldwell v. Caldwell (1991), 891 So. 2d 203 - West v. West (2004)
31 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 Culbreath v. Johnson · 437 So. 2d 410 - Tedford v. Dempsey · 435 So. 2d 683 - Cotton v. McConnell · 431 So. 2d 1139 - Cheek v. Ricker · 453 So. 2d 1294 - Tucker v. Tucker
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“complete within itself containing no extraneous references, leaving open no matter or description or designation out of which contention may arise as to the meaning.”
11 later decisions quote this exact passage“[tjhese. factors channel the escalation clause to relate to the non-custodial parent’s ability to pay and the needs of the child. An automatic adjustment clause without regard to all of the above factors runs the risk of overemphasizing one side of the support equation ... an increase in the [non-custodial] parent’s income does not necessarily entitle the child to more support; nor does an income decrease necessarily signal an inability to pay....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) specify -with certainty the particular cost of living or consumer price index which is to be utilized (there are many); (b) show the applicable ratio (present CPI is to ascertainable CPI as present award is to future award); (c) calculate the base figure as of the date of judgment; (d) establish frequency of adjustments (we suggest nothing less than yearly); and (e) establish an effective date for each adjustment (e.g. anniversary of date of judgment).”
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.