586 So. 2d 155 - Dudley v. Light’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently October 2012
15 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 · Fulp v. Fulp · 498 So. 2d 328 - Dillon v. Dillon · 431 So. 2d 1139 - Cheek v. Ricker
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When entering a child support decree, the chancellor should consider all circumstances relevant to the needs of the children and the capacities of the parents. The reasonable needs of the children are obviously the beginning point in such inquiry. There is always some minimum level of food, clothing, shelter, day care, education, medical care and the like that must be provided. Above that, what is reasonable turns on the circumstances — and one of the major circumstances is the financial resources reasonably available to each parent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] lien may also be impressed out of recognition of general principles of right and justice, (citations omitted) (2) A principal reason for impressing an equitable lien is to prevent unjust enrichment, i.e., where it would be contrary to equity and good conscience for an individual to retain a property interest acquired at the expense of another. (citations omitted) Section 161 of the Restatement of Restitution states that "where property of one person can by a proceeding in equity by [sic] reached by another as security on the ground that otherwise the former would be unjustly enriched, an equitable lien arises."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“where property of one person can by a proceeding in equity by [sic] reached by another as security on the ground that otherwise the former would be unjustly enriched, an equitable lien arises.”
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.