204 So. 2d 239 - Klein v. Klein’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently November 1996
9 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 Frazier v. Frazier · 56 So. 2d 441 - Todd v. Todd · 160 So. 2d 159 - Ritsi v. Ritsi · Epperson v. Epperson · 114 So. 2d 338 - Johnson v. Johnson
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It has been held that the rule to be applied on a petition to modify a decree for custody is that while the welfare of the children is of paramount concern, a final decree awarding custody to one parent, being res judicata of the matters involved, and known at the time of the decree, should not be modified to change the custody to the other parent, except upon materially changed circumstances, or for material facts unknown to the court at the time of the decree, and then only when it is shown to be essential to the welfare of the child.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Although the law tends to favor the mother over the father in awarding permanent custody of young female minor children, the direct and final test in child custody cases is the welfare of minor children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts v. Knight““The question of whether to remove a child from the custody of its natural mother is one over which judges have agonized from time immemorial.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Roberts v. Knight
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.