690 So. 2d 737 - Brock v. Brock’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2016
22 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 576 So. 2d 281 - State v. Williams · Wells v. Dungey · 482 So. 2d 346 - Wade v. State · 639 So. 2d 972 - Advisory Opinion to the Attorney General re Funding for Criminal Justice · 592 So. 2d 678 - Rahming v. State
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The problem in this case is that we cannot determine from a review of the judgment, whether or not there was a close to equal distribution of marital assets and liabilities because there are insufficient value findings, and identification of marital assets and debts. This constitutes reversible error. Further, the record on appeal is lacking as to evidence to support findings on valuation for some of the marital assets, since none was presented at the final hearing. Behind the statute's requirement of fact findings, which burdens both trial counsel and trial judges in dissolution cases, is the concomitant requirement that there be competent substantial evidence in the record to support those findings. This is the attorneys' or pro-se parties' burden. A trial judge cannot create findings out of thin air. The recourse in such cases is to reverse and remand for the purpose of reconsidering and reconstituting the final judgment. If necessary, and appropriate, the trial judge may take additional testimony to determine proper valuation of assets, and liabilities.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“an amount sufficient to meet the former wife's reasonable needs measured by the parties' former marital standard of living... limited by the former husband's ability to meet those needs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to require an investor to reinvest assets in a manner which will result in losses through fees, taxes, cost, and loss of principal due to inflation”
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.