562 So. 2d 79 - Gray v. Gray’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 47 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson (1994), 637 So. 2d 850 - Chamblee v. Chamblee (1994)
47 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 Southmark Properties v. Charles House Corp. · 418 So. 2d 764 - McKee v. McKee · 537 So. 2d 435 - Cheatham v. Cheatham · Rivera v. M/T Fossarina · 532 So. 2d 574 - Jones v. Jones
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 47 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]limony, if allowed, should be reasonable in amount, commensurate with the wife's accustomed standard of living, minus her own resources, and considering the ability of the husband to pay.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“chancellor should consider the reasonable needs of the wife and the right of the husband to lead as normal a life as possible with a decent standard of living.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“newly discovered evidence which by due diligence could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under Rule 59(b).”
2 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.