Riley v. Riley

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• affirming contempt order entered following the former husband's failure to designate the former wife as the primary beneficiary of a life insurance policy as required by the parties' settlement agreement
• “[C]ontempt power is limited by [Florida’s Constitution] and other traditional limitations on the use of contempt powers where there are alternative adequate legal remedies.” (footnote omitted)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

11 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Roth v. Roth
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2008-01-09· cited 58×
• Stein v. Paradigm Mirasol, LLC
  Eleventh Circuit· 2009-09-30· cited 39×
• Singer v. Singer
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1995-03-22· cited 7×
• Butler v. State
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-07-07· cited 7×
• Palmer v. Palmer
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-09-06· cited 4×
• Dan Huber, Mary Huber and Lads Network Solutions, Inc. v. Disaster Solutions, LLC and Scott Lewis
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2015-12-09· cited 4×
• Byrne v. Byrne
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-01-29· cited 2×
• Pratt v. Pratt
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1994-10-26· cited 1×
• KEITH WILLIAMS v. PENELOPE WILLIAMS
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2018-07-11· cited 1×
• McQuady v. McQuady
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1988-04-21
• Marin v. Marin
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2025-10-15

Cites

23 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Royal Court Apartments, Inc. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1966-04-04· cited 95×
• In the Interest of S. L. T.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1965-11-16· cited 61×
• Bronk v. State
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1901-06-15· cited 49×
• Howell v. Howell
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1968-02-28· cited 32×
• Lamm v. Chapman
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1982-03-11· cited 32×
• Benson v. Benson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-03-28· cited 19×
• Burke v. Burke
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-09-10· cited 19×
• Howard v. Howard
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1960-02-02· cited 18×
• Wallace v. Townsell
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-06-27· cited 14×
• Schminkey v. Schminkey
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1981-06-17· cited 13×
• Ball v. Ball
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1983-11-21· cited 12×
• Pearce v. Pearce
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1957-10-16· cited 10×
• English v. Galbreath
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-01-30· cited 9×
• Cox v. Cox
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1985-01-18· cited 9×
• State Ex Rel. Pearson v. JOHNSON, J., BROWARD CTY.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1976-04-30· cited 9×
• Gilman v. Altman
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1974-09-10· cited 9×
• Witter v. Witter
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1984-01-04· cited 9×
• Tabas v. Hudson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1965-05-18· cited 9×
• Firestone v. Ferguson
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1979-05-29· cited 5×
• Collins v. Collins
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1965-10-07· cited 4×