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← 134 SO3D 369 - Lott v. Alexander

Lott v. Alexander’s Empirical Analysis

2014

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
August 2017
most recently cited

2 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Troxel v. Granville · Hamner v. Yazoo Delta Lumber Co. · 693 So. 2d 912 - Martin v. Coop · 815 So. 2d 1203 - Wallace v. Town of Raleigh · 798 So. 2d 1275 - Stacy v. Ross

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

  1. “we would not be adverse to allowing those persons 'standing in loco parentis' or 'any person having an interest in the welfare of the child' to file petitions such as this, we do not believe this was the intention of the legislature.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “would open the door to aunts and uncles, cousins and great-great-grandparents.”
    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.