588 So. 2d 428 - Varner v. Varner’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
49 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 49 later decisions — most recently August 2016 · most notably 735 So. 2d 1109 - Carter v. Carter (1999), 598 So. 2d 783 - Tanner v. Roland (1992)
49 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 547 So. 2d 766 - Nichols v. Tedder · 437 So. 2d 410 - Tedford v. Dempsey · 564 So. 2d 839 - Cumberland v. Cumberland · 559 So. 2d 1014 - Thurman v. Thurman · 511 So. 2d 489 - Pace v. Owens
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 49 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The law remains firm that court-ordered child support payments vest in the child as they accrue and may not thereafter by modified or forgiven, only paid. But this does not mean that equity may not at times suggest ex post facto approval of extra-judicial adjustments in the manner and form in which support payments have been made. This gets us to an important consideration, for, although [the father] and [the mother] had no authority to pretermit [the father's] obligation via [their agreement relating to custody and the reduction in child support], it appears beyond peradventure that [the father] has, in fact, long since paid what he has owed to support [the child]; he just did not pay it to [the mother]."”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“dip into her own resources beyond what would otherwise be expected of her, she may recover and retain amounts so proved....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“... payments such as college tuition will seldom qualify [as offset for child support], as they do not diminish the child's need for food, clothing and shelter.”
4 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.