266 So. 2d 400 - Brust v. Brust’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
17
cited by 17 later decisions
1
states following
September 1981
most recently cited
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al. · Jones v. Jones · Fields v. Fields · 95 So. 2d 25 - Grant v. Corbitt · Hurst v. Hurst
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"* * * Appellee is a loving father and spends a great deal of time with his boys; the father oftentimes bathes, dresses and feeds the boys and puts them to bed; * * * `* * * The defendant, their father, has displayed a greater degree of interest in the rearing of his sons than fathers generally do, and has participated personally in their physical care to a greater extent than fathers are wont to participate, manifestly enjoying the function of being a father. He has a knack for combining love for his children with a proper degree of necessary discipline. Both the mother and the father work outside the home for pay. The father has developed a concrete and workable plan for the supervision and care of the children during the several hours each school day after school lets out before he arrives home to take care of them himself * * *'" ( 266 So.2d at page 401 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dinkel v. Dinkel“"`Other things being equal, ... the mother of infants of tender years [is] best fitted to bestow the motherly affection, care, companionship, and early training suited to their needs.'" ( 197 So. 531 )”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anderson v. Anderson
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.