Schado v. Schado’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently October 2014
4 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
Applies 10 U.S.C. § 1408
Relies on 617 So. 2d 1036 - Parrish v. Parrish · Welch v. Welch · 634 So. 2d 533 - Ex Parte Vaughn · 464 So. 2d 109 - Isham v. Isham · 459 So. 2d 910 - Echols v. Echols
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Initially, we note that a trial court’s determination as to alimony and the division of property following an ore tenus presentation of the evidence is presumed correct. On appeal, issues of alimony and property division must be considered together, and the trial court’s judgment will not be disturbed absent a finding that it is unsupported by the evidence so as to amount to an abuse of discretion. Some factors that the trial court should consider in dividing marital property and setting alimony payments include ‘(1) the earning ability of the parties; (2) their probable future prospects; (3) their age, sex, health and station in life; (4) the duration of the marriage; and (5) the conduct of the parties with reference to the cause of divorce.’ The division of property in a divorce proceeding need not be equal, but must be equitable.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crowder v. Crowder“under the new rule in Ex parte Vaughn , it is permissible for a trial court to order one spouse to provide the other with a survivor's annuity. . . . [T]he trial court could have, in its discretion , made such an award of retirement benefits.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“disposable military retirement benefits . . . accumulated during the course of the marriage constitute marital property and, therefore, are subject to equitable division as such.”
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.