245 So. 2d 22 - Morris v. Morris’s Empirical Analysis
1971
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently June 2010
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 Brown v. Brown · 200 So. 2d 459 - Vockroth v. Vockroth · Davis v. Holland · Shoffner v. Shoffner
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“as may seem equitable and just, make all orders touching the care, custody and maintenance of the children of the marriage ...”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f it develops that the mother and father of a child are unsuitable to have custody, it is the duty and responsibility of the court to find a suitable home and suitable adults to stand in loco parentis.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Logan v. Logan
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.