677 So. 2d 663 - Sims v. Sims’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2011
8 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 Arceneaux v. Domingue · 632 So. 2d 1200 - McConathy v. McConathy · Trahan v. Allstate Insurance Co. · Obiago v. MERRILL-NATIONAL LABORATORY, INC. · Veron v. Veron
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... while the principal payments by the community have served to improve or benefit the separate property of one spouse and thus entitle the other spouse to reimbursement, the interest payments are different. It is said that the interest benefits the community as the business cost of maintaining and using the natural and civil fruits of the separate property. Such interest payments thus simply constitute compensation by the community in that regard. (Citations omitted.)”
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.