885 So. 2d 1023 - Alpha v. Alpha’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
12 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 472 So. 2d 1145 - Florida Patient's Compensation Fund v. Rowe · 555 So. 2d 828 - Standard Guar. Ins. Co. v. Quanstrom · 593 So. 2d 491 - Robertson v. Robertson · 839 So. 2d 867 - Ondrejack v. Ondrejack · Sobelman v. Sobelman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[s]pecial circumstances include a spouse potentially left in dire financial straits after the death of the obligor spouse due to age, ill health and/or lack of employment skills, obligor spouse in poor health, minors living at home, supported spouse with limited earning capacity, obligor spouse in arrears on support obligations, and cases where the obligor spouse agreed on the record to secure an award with a life insurance policy.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[a]lthough this court has not looked kindly on `bridge the gap' rehabilitative alimony awards in the past, in a proper case, it might do so in the future”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Price v. Price
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.