Floyd v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 1986 · most notably Welsh v. Welsh (1948), 345 So. 2d 371 - Pfohl v. Pfohl (1977)
43 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 Phelan v. Phelan · Arendall v. Arendall · Chaires v. Chaires · Sanchez v. Sanchez · Underwood v. Underwood
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where ... a charge [of abandonment] is asserted by the husband in defense of the wife's application for temporary alimony, the temporary alimony sought will be denied, unless a sufficient showing is made by the wife in refutation of such charge.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“but this discretion is not an arbitrary one; it is a judicial discretion, to be exercised in accordance with established rules of law wisely adapted to the facts apparent in each particular case... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[a]limony is based on the common-law obligation of the husband to support the wife.”
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.