Mendes v. Mendes’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
May 2014
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 601 So. 2d 534 - Pimm v. Pimm · Jaffee v. Jaffee · 698 So. 2d 811 - Overbey v. Overbey · 743 So. 2d 1225 - Garcia v. Garcia · Bingham v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“The reason for this doctrine is an obvious one: if the likelihood of a particular occurrence was one of the factors which the court or the parties considered in initially fixing the award in question, it would be grossly unfair subsequently to change the result simply because the anticipated event has come to pass.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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