577 So. 2d 378 - Dunn v. Dunn’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently June 2017
5 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 Bilbo v. Bilbo · 530 So. 2d 1363 - Blackledge v. Scott · Reagan Equipment Co. v. Vaughn Gin Co. · 354 So. 2d 794 - Gillard v. Great Southern Mtg. & Loan Corp. · 208 So. 2d 194 - Ross v. Ross
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... If the defendant be a resident of this state, the complaint shall be filed in the county in which such defendant resides or may be found at the time, or in the county of the residence of the parties at the time of separation, if the plaintiff be still a resident of such county when the suit is instituted.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he opportunity to reopen should be granted when the opposing party would not be surprised and when a refusal would deprive a litigant of the opportunity to introduce material evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“may be brought in the chancery court of any county where the defendant ... may reside or be found. ....”
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.