614 So. 2d 394 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
86 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 86 later decisions — most recently September 2015 · most notably 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson (1994), 25 So. 3d 274 - Lowrey v. Lowrey (2009)
86 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 1003 - Albright v. Albright · 537 So. 2d 435 - Cheatham v. Cheatham · 559 So. 2d 1014 - Thurman v. Thurman · 566 So. 2d 704 - Martin v. Martin · 471 So. 2d 1206 - Kergosien v. Kergosien
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 86 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a party is financially able to pay her attorney, an award of attorney's fees is not appropriate.”
16 later decisions quote this exact passage“means something more than unkindness or rudeness or mere incompatibility or want of affection.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bowen v. Bowen · McKee v. Flynt“at a time real, on a scene certain, and with a knowledge special to the actual circumstances and to the individual child or children.”
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.