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90 So. 3d 1259 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

2011

Citation profile

10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

10 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 639 So. 2d 921 - Ferguson v. Ferguson · 25 So. 3d 274 - Lowrey v. Lowrey · Gilmer v. State · Thompson v. Thompson · 607 So. 2d 1204 - Faries v. Faries

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

  1. “(1) endanger[s] life, limb, or health, or create[s] a reasonable apprehension of such danger, rendering the relationship unsafe for the party seeking relief, or (2) [is] so unnatural and infamous as to make the marriage revolting to the non-offending spouse and render it impossible for that spouse to discharge the duties of marriage, thus destroying the basis for its continuance.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “Although in cases of violence a single incident may be sufficient for a divorce, generally the plaintiff must show a pattern of conduct.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “A chancellor's determination that a spouse's conduct rose to the level of habitual cruel and inhuman treatment is a determination of law, which we review de novo.”
    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.