Simmons v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently October 2016
8 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 477 So. 2d 445 - Brannon v. Brannon · 512 So. 2d 781 - May v. Dept. of Human Resources · 376 So. 2d 732 - Reynolds v. Reynolds · 475 So. 2d 1196 - Bass v. Bass · 455 So. 2d 855 - Forlini v. Forlini
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“based on a mere supposition that the father's income `may' be decreased at a future date.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“A child support award may be modified only on proof of a material change of circumstances since the last decree.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wilson v. Wilson
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.