592 So. 2d 1221 - Deas v. Deas’s Empirical Analysis

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14 state decisions

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.

1. “[t]he burden of proof is on the spouse who wishes to show that an asset or liability acquired during the marriage is not ... marital....”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 804 So. 2d 513 - Jahnke v. Jahnke · 852 So. 2d 343 - Gaetani-Slade v. Slade

2. “An award of rehabilitative alimony must be predicated upon evidence of a need for the alimony and the other party’s ability to pay, as well as evidence that the party seeking the rehabilitative alimony “has the ability through retraining or education to provide for a standard of living reasonably commensurate with the standard established during the marriage.””

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Moran v. Moran · 622 So. 2d 532 - Bissell v. Bissell

3. “acquired . . . during the marriage, individually by either spouse or jointly by them,”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Ray v. Ray · 971 So. 2d 191 - Smith v. Smith