738 So. 2d 522 - Law v. Law’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2019
1 federal appellate · 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 137 So. 2d 201 - Orange Brevard Plumbing & Heating Co. v. La Croix · 531 So. 2d 946 - Public Health Tr. of Dade Cty. v. Lopez · Collins v. Collins · 578 So. 2d 701 - City Nat. Bank of Florida v. Tescher · 214 So. 2d 639 - In Re Estate of Van Meter
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““We see nothing inconsistent with our public policy if we extend a homestead exemption to each of two people who are married, but legitimately live apart in separate residences, if they otherwise meet the requirements of the exemption. When we say ‘legitimately’ we mean that there is no ‘fraudulent or otherwise egregious act’ by the beneficiary of the homestead exemption.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“promote the stability and welfare of the state by encouraging property ownership and independence on the part of the citizen and by preserving a home where the family may be sheltered and live beyond the reach of economic misfortune.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Reinish v. Clark“The homestead exemption is liberally construed for the benefit of those whom it was designed to protect.”
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.