Lefler v. Lefler’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
13 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 453 So. 2d 375 - DeClaire v. Yohanan · 695 So. 2d 1253 - Daniel v. Daniel · 760 So. 2d 940 - Florida Bar v. Grosso · 679 So. 2d 1160 - Cerniglia v. Cerniglia · 684 So. 2d 231 - STATE ON BEHALF OF CURRENT v. Harris
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[The] prevention of an unsuccessful party [from] presenting his case, by fraud or deception practiced by his adversary; keeping the opponent away from the court; falsely promising a compromise; ignorance of the adversary about the existence of the suit or the acts of the plaintiff; fraudulent representation of a party without his consent and connivance in his defeat; and so on.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“... the wife's failure to disclose the child's true parentage would not constitute extrinsic fraud, regardless of whether her silence was relied on by the husband in entering into a marriage settlement agreement as to child support.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Parker v. Parker“DeClaire has been superseded . . . by amendments to Florida Rule of Civil Procedure 1.540(b) and Florida Family Law Rule 12.540, which eliminates the one year rule for cases of false financial affidavits in a family law case.”
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.