Kennedy v. Kennedy’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2019
2 federal appellate · 18 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 367 So. 2d 283 - State Ex Rel. Bickman v. Dees · Harang v. Bowie Lumber Co. · 593 So. 2d 1239 - Succession of Doll v. Doll · 657 So. 2d 282 - IP Timberlands Operating Co. v. Denmiss Corp. · IP Timberlands Operating Co. v. Denmiss Corp.
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“statute specifically directed to the matter at issue must prevail as an exception to the statute more general in character.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.