179 So. 2d 103 - Fox v. Fox’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

12 state decisions

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

1. ““When a court of this state has jurisdiction of the parties and of the children in such a contest relating to their custody, notwithstanding a final order conferring custody of the one or the other may have been made in a foreign state (and here only a temporary order for custody had been made by the Indiana court) it is the duty of the court to decide the issue as to custody on its merits.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Peeno v. Peeno

2. ““The Florida decisions show that even if the father in seeking custody here had been armed with an order of the Indiana court purporting to grant him permanent custody, under neither the doctrine of full faith and credit nor of comity would it have been proper for the Florida court to defer to the foreign jurisdiction and direct the return of the child there to abide its order.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 238 So. 2d 490 - Coker v. Montgomery