823 So. 2d 568 - Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
April 2018
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson · Armstrong v. Armstrong · 418 So. 2d 764 - McKee v. McKee · 656 So. 2d 124 - Hubbard v. Hubbard · 626 So. 2d 140 - Daigle v. Daigle
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Physical violence or threats of physical violence are not necessary to prove habitual cruel and inhuman treatment.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“either endangers life, limb, or health, or creates a reasonable apprehension of such danger, rendering the relationship unsafe for the party seeking relief, or in the alternative, be so unnatural and infamous as to make the marriage revolting to the offending spouse and render it impossible for that spouse to discharge the duties of the marriage, thus destroying the basis for its continuance.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Habitual cruel and inhuman treatment must be established by a preponderance of the evidence, rather than clear and convincing evidence.”
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.