Young v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Hill v. Hooten (2001), Porzio v. Porzio (2000)
26 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 · 639 So. 2d 972 - Advisory Opinion to the Attorney General re Funding for Criminal Justice · O'Neal v. O'Neal · 367 So. 2d 1016 - Williamson v. Williamson · 629 So. 2d 883 - S&E Contractors, Inc. v. City of Tampa
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[d]isparate earning capacity of the parties is 'a significant factor' in deciding whether permanent ... alimony is warranted.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) The standard of living established during the marriage. (b) The duration of the marriage. (c) The age and the physical and emotional condition of each party. (d) The financial resources of each party, the nonmarital and the marital assets and liabilities distributed to each. (e) When applicable, the time necessary for either party to acquire sufficient education or training to enable such party to find appropriate employment. (f) The contribution of each party to the marriage, including, but not limited to, services rendered in homemaking, child care, education, and career building of the other party. (g) All sources of income available to either party. The court may consider any other factor necessary to do equity and justice between the parties.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“For purposes of determining entitlement to alimony, a spouse is not self-supporting just because he or she has a job and income. To the extent possible, a divorced spouse is entitled to live in a manner reasonably commensurate with the standard established during the course of a marriage, notwithstanding that the spouse is employed.”
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.