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757 So. 2d 305 - Harmon v. Harmon’s Empirical Analysis

1999

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
April 2010
most recently cited

3 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright · 537 So. 2d 435 - Cheatham v. Cheatham · 652 So. 2d 1113 - Brooks v. Brooks · Sellers v. Sellers · 644 So. 2d 1199 - Doe v. Doe

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “While this Court is not suggesting con-donation of the conduct of the appellant wife after the separation of the parties, when we balance out the uncontradicted evidence that the conduct of the appellee was responsible for the separation of the parties and the dissolution of their marriage; that the misconduct of the appellant wife occurred after the destruction of the marriage; and that the [Legislature has, in the least, greatly weakened the defense of recrimination; we are of the opinion that the learned chancellor erred in denying a divorce to [the] ap-pellantf.]”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “Adultery may be shown by evidence or admissions and either are sufficient to support a decree of divorce.”
    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.