Engel v. Engel’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently November 2011
3 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 Smith v. Croom · 82 So. 2d 364 - Bloomfield v. City of St. Petersburg Beach
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[t]he only proper concept of permanency when used in this sense means the presence of the intention to reside at that particular place for an indefinite period of time. * * * [T]he basic thought is that a man's home is where he makes it and that he intends to make it where he in fact does."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“We apply the same criteria as would have been applied if a creditor had sought a forced sale of the premises involved and the testator had asserted his homestead exemption.”
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.