644 So. 2d 446 - Hockaday v. Hockaday’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently May 2017
7 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 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson · Armstrong v. Armstrong · 639 So. 2d 909 - Hemsley v. Hemsley · Brabham v. Brabham · 610 So. 2d 348 - Tilley v. Tilley
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“being industrious and endeavoring to accomplish something rather than depend on [the paying spouse] regardless of future circumstances.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“such a substantial change in circumstances as to warrant a permanent reduction or termination of periodic alimony”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“not rise to a substantial change of circumstances sufficient to modify the alimony payments.”
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.