Cherry v. Cherry’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Armstrong v. Armstrong (1993), 652 So. 2d 1113 - Brooks v. Brooks (1995)
30 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 532 So. 2d 574 - Jones v. Jones · 562 So. 2d 79 - Gray v. Gray · 495 So. 2d 503 - Wood v. Wood · 566 So. 2d 1269 - Brendel v. Brendel · 459 So. 2d 283 - Gallaspy v. Gallaspy
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hether to award alimony, and the amount to be awarded, are largely within the discretion of the chancellor.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]n entire course of conduct rule applies”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It shall be no impediment to a divorce that the offended spouse did not leave the marital domicile or separate from the offending spouse on account of the conduct of the offending spouse.”
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.