220 So. 2d 340 - Brocato v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently July 2015 · most notably 431 So. 2d 1139 - Cheek v. Ricker (1983), 483 So. 2d 318 - Spain v. Holland (1986)
26 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 Cassell v. Cassell · Earwood v. Cowart · Turner v. Turner · Nowell v. Nowell
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A decree fixing the custody of a child is, however, final on the conditions then existing and should not be changed afterward unless on altered conditions since the decree * * * and then only for the welfare for the child.”
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.