Smith v. Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently November 1984
8 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 121 So. 2d 777 - Bohn v. Rhoades · 114 So. 2d 493 - Rhoades v. Bohn · State Ex Rel. Clark v. Clark · 97 So. 2d 16 - Dahlke v. Dahlke · Giachetti v. Giachetti
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"It has long been the law of this state that courts have no jurisdiction to initially adjudicate the custody of a minor child unless such child is physically present within the territorial jurisdiction of the court at the time suit seeking an adjudication of its custody is filed. This rule prevails even though personal service of process is had upon the defendant who has custody of the child in a foreign jurisdiction." (Italics ours)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“" The rule of law pronounced in Rhoades applies only to supplemental proceedings brought for the purpose of modifying a prior order or decree relating to the custody of minors. The decision in no manner disturbs or modifies the basic requirement that in order for a court to acquire jurisdiction of a proceeding to initially adjudicate the custody of a minor, the child must be physically present within the territorial jurisdiction of that court at the time the proceeding is instituted. " (Italics ours)”
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.