588 So. 2d 1049 - Nelson v. Nelson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2012
14 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 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · 491 So. 2d 265 - Diffenderfer v. Diffenderfer · 478 So. 2d 489 - O'Steen v. O'Steen · 507 So. 2d 164 - Henning v. Henning · DeLoach v. DeLoach
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the length of the marriage, the standard of living of the parties, the needs of the wife, and the fact that the trial judge determined that the husband makes over twice the amount wife has the potential to earn on a full-time basis[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Gray“necessitate her to arrange for child care for their eight-year-old daughter and require her to suspend caring for the daughter during the summers.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Gray“[a]fter their daughter was born, the parties decided the wife should stay home and care for the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gray v. Gray
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.