Combs v. Sherry-Combs’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently December 2025 · most notably State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. v. Shrader (1994), Cranston v. Cranston (1994)
44 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 Martinez v. State · Scherling v. Kilgore · Prudential Preferred Properties v. J and J Ventures, Inc. · Laird v. Laird · 569 So. 2d 1213 - McManus v. Howard
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Abuse of discretion occurs when a court exceeds the bounds of reason or commits an error of law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“a contract entered into between two people in contemplation and consideration of marriage. The marriage provides the requisite consideration to bind both parties.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Long v. Long“is created when the parties execute an agreement following the marriage ceremony, even if the agreement is negotiated and drafted prior to the marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Long v. Long
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.