Marsh v. Marsh’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 513 So. 2d 1057 - Florida Bar v. Hosner · 549 So. 2d 219 - Pirino v. Pirino · 466 So. 2d 356 - Miller v. Miller · 145 So. 2d 291 - Peteler v. Peteler · 477 So. 2d 620 - Richards v. Richards
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The problem may be the common one that, before dissolution of the marriage, by incurring debt, the family lived beyond its economic means and that, after the marriage is dissolved, to live separately and to maintain two households, will cost even more. A trial court cannot really solve this common and frustrating aspect of domestic relations work (footnote omitted) but neither can the trial court order an obligor to pay more than the court has found that obligor has the ability to pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A trial court cannot really solve this common and frustrating aspect of domestic relations work but neither can the trial court order an obligor to pay more than the court has found that obligor has the ability to pay.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“due allowance for the husband to retain sufficient amount of his income in order that he may live and work.”
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.