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← 889 SO2D 215 - Arnold v. Arnold

Arnold v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis

2004

Citation profile

4
cited by 4 later decisions
1
states following
January 2016
most recently cited

4 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Leon Shaffer Golnick Advertising, Inc. v. Cedar · 612 So. 2d 610 - Straley v. Frank · 855 So. 2d 1267 - Brown v. School Bd. of Palm Beach County

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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “Unsworn statements do not establish facts. In this case, the trial court improperly relied upon the unsworn statements allegedly made by [the husband’s former lawyer’s] paralegal, who repeated them to [the wife’s] counsel, who relayed them to the court, to determine that [the husband] had received notice of the final hearing. The “evidence” relied on by the trial court as the basis for denial of the continuance was not competent. The denial of [the husband’s] request for a continuance thus was an abuse of discretion.”
    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.