598 So. 2d 921 - Murray v. Murray’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2011
14 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 519 So. 2d 525 - Montgomery v. Montgomery · 469 So. 2d 653 - Weatherly v. Weatherly · Robbins v. Robbins · 437 So. 2d 583 - West v. West · Cox v. Cox
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.
“"The award of attorney's fees in a [modification] case is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court, which will not be reversed unless an abuse of that discretion is shown. . . . Factors to be considered by the trial court in a [modification case] in making an attorney's fee award include earning capacity of parties, results of litigation, and financial circumstances of the parties."”
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.