Grogan v. Grogan’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently January 2019
22 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 Armstrong v. Armstrong · 418 So. 2d 764 - McKee v. McKee · 537 So. 2d 435 - Cheatham v. Cheatham · 610 So. 2d 348 - Tilley v. Tilley · 559 So. 2d 1014 - Thurman v. Thurman
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he process of weighing evidence and arriving at an award of child support is essentially an exercise in fact-finding, which customarily significantly restrains this Court's review.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The decision as to whether to award attorney's fees in a divorce case is within the sound discretion of the chancellor.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“unless the chancellor was manifestly in error in his finding of fact and manifestly abused his discretion.”
2 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.