819 So. 2d 902 - Ballesteros v. Ballesteros’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently December 2013
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 382 So. 2d 1197 - Canakaris v. Canakaris · 565 So. 2d 820 - Gentile v. Gentile · 730 So. 2d 400 - Calderon v. Calderon · 418 So. 2d 316 - Thomas v. Thomas · 660 So. 2d 1162 - Decker v. Decker
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Appellant's monthly expenses for basic necessities such as food, housing, utilities and transportation amount to a minimum of $1,168.00 a month. Since it is apparent that appellant cannot support himself after paying $866.00 a month in alimony and $200.00 a month in arrears, we hold that the trial court abused its discretion in modifying the alimony award.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alois v. Alois“Although the parties are of modest means, the alimony award, combined with the child support award and health insurance for the minor child, left former husband without the means to support himself, such that no reasonable man could differ as to the impropriety of the court's award.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Alois v. Alois“Where the husband's income is nearly exhausted on obligations imposed by the final judgment, leaving him with practically no money to support himself, reasonable persons could not differ as to the impropriety of the actions taken by the trial court.”
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.