276 So. 2d 408 - Stuckey v. Stuckey’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently February 2009
12 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 Fulco v. Fulco · Decker v. Landry · Messner v. Messner · Guillory v. Guillory · Salley v. Salley
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.
“"* * * At some time in the future when [the mother] demonstrates more maturity and shows that she can provide a suitable home for raising her child, she can return to court and seek custody." Id. p. 411.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“a sound rule which allows the trial court the necessary flexibility to do what is necessary in the best interest of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.