Adams v. Adams’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently August 2016
22 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 418 So. 2d 764 - McKee v. McKee · Culbreath v. Johnson · 437 So. 2d 410 - Tedford v. Dempsey · 537 So. 2d 435 - Cheatham v. Cheatham · 435 So. 2d 683 - Cotton v. McConnell
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The burden of proof that must be met by the party seeking a financial modification is to show a material change of circumstances of one or more of the interested parties, whether it be the father, mother, or the child(ren), arising subsequent to the original decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“should not be required to invade the corpus of her investment or to take from her own teacher's income to pay her attorney's fees under the facts in this case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The award of attorney fees in divorce cases is left to the discretion of the chancellor, assuming he follows the appropriate standards.”
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.