597 So. 2d 653 - Hammonds v. Hammonds’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson (1994), Armstrong v. Armstrong (1993)
41 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 480 So. 2d 1120 - Carr v. Carr · Rainey v. Rainey · 495 So. 2d 503 - Wood v. Wood · 578 So. 2d 580 - Retzer v. Retzer · 383 So. 2d 146 - Beacham v. Beacham
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. The income and expenses of the parties; 2. The health and earning capacities of the parties; 3. The needs of each party; 4. The obligations and assets of each party; 5. The length of the marriage; 6. The presence or absence of minor children in the home, which may require that one or both of the parties either pay, or personally provide, child care; 7. The age of the parties; 8. The standard of living of the parties, both during the marriage and at the time of the support determination; 9. The tax consequences of the spousal support order; 10. Fault or misconduct; 11. Wasteful dissipation of assets by either party; or 12. Any other factor deemed by the court to be "just and equitable" in connection with the setting of spousal support.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage“adultery should not stand as an absolute bar to alimony, especially, we believe, when denial of alimony would render the wife destitute.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(e)xcept for her fault, Linda satisfies the other criteria for an alimony award: she contributed substantially to the total accumulation of marital assets; the marriage lasted some twenty-five (25) years; she has no separate income or estate while Larry's is substantial; and without alimony, Linda lacks any financial security.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hammonds v. Hammonds
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.