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930 So. 2d 415 - Spence v. Spence’s Empirical Analysis

2005

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
May 2008
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on 824 So. 2d 623 - Sanderson v. Sanderson · 498 So. 2d 328 - Dillon v. Dillon · 614 So. 2d 394 - Smith v. Smith · 732 So. 2d 876 - Kilpatrick v. Kilpatrick · Banks v. Banks

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

  1. “`[t]rifles light as air' may be sufficient to convince the jealous or the suspicious, but they do not impress the court with the same degree of credulity. Before accepting charges so seriously affecting the character of a person, the evidence must be clear and convincing.”
    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.