669 So. 2d 328 - Melvik v. Melvik’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2019
6 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 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · Bobb v. Bobb · 661 So. 2d 370 - Cole v. Roberts · 509 So. 2d 329 - Wright v. Wright
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It was error for the trial court to consider the wife's premarital property, such as her engagement and wedding rings which were found to be gifts to the wife, in the equitable distribution scheme.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moody v. Newton“asset distribution should be equal unless there is justification for a disparity in treatment”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.