Via v. Putnam’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently July 2013
1 federal appellate · 9 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 247 So. 2d 40 - Gates v. Foley · In Re Estate of Yohn · Lewis v. Lewis · Rubenstein v. Mueller · 100 Ill. App. 2d 177 - Keats v. Cates
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Florida ... has always maintained a strong public policy in favor of protecting a surviving spouse of a marriage in existence at the time of a decedent's death.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“`[t]he institution of marriage has been a cornerstone of western civilization for thousands of years and is the most important type of contract ever formed.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“strong public policy concerning the protection of the surviving spouse of [a] marriage in existence at the time of the decedent's death.”
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.