605 So. 2d 809 - McEachern v. McEachern’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
57 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 57 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Armstrong v. Armstrong (1993), 650 So. 2d 1281 - Johnson v. Johnson (1994)
57 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 437 So. 2d 410 - Tedford v. Dempsey · 490 So. 2d 866 - Cox v. Moulds · 559 So. 2d 1014 - Thurman v. Thurman · 562 So. 2d 79 - Gray v. Gray · 467 So. 2d 211 - Adams v. Adams
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 57 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“unless the chancellor was manifestly in error in his finding of fact and manifestly abused his discretion.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Grogan v. Grogan · Wallace v. Bond“(1) increased needs caused by advanced age and maturity of the children (2) increase in expenses, and (3) inflation factor. Other factors include (4) the relative financial condition and earning capacity of the parties, (5) the health and special needs of the child, both physical and psychological, (6) the health and special medical needs of the parents, both physical and psychological, (7) the necessary living expenses of the father, (8) the estimated amount of income taxes the respective parties must pay on their incomes, (9) the free use of a residence, furnishings, and automobile and (10) such other facts and circumstances that bear on the support subject shown by the evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(2) The guidelines provided for in subsection (1) of this section apply unless the judicial or administrative body awarding or modifying the child support award makes a written finding or specific finding on the record that the application of the guidelines would be unjust or inappropriate in a particular case as determined under the criteria specified in Section 43-19-103.”
4 later decisions 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.