Anderson v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently June 2017 · most notably 720 So. 2d 609 - Bardin v. State, Dept. of Revenue (1998), 626 So. 2d 278 - Pitts v. Pitts (1993)
28 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 600 So. 2d 1222 - Walsh v. Walsh · 559 So. 2d 737 - Berger v. Berger · Barrs v. Barrs · Alterman v. Alterman · Davis v. Davis
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he decision of whether to award [child] support from the date of the petition for modification is within the trial court's discretion. It is an abuse of discretion, however, to fail to award support from the date of the petition for modification where the need for the support and the ability of the former spouse to pay existed at the time that the modification petition was filed.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“the child's need and the [father]'s ability to pay existed at the time of the filing of the petition for dissolution”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is error to award child support which is retroactive to a date prior to a request for modification of an order which previously addressed child support.”
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.