287 So. 2d 740 - Van Meter v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1973
Citation profile
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 194 So. 2d 260 - Florida East Coast Railway Company v. Rouse · Ingerson v. State Farm Mutual Automobile Ins. Co. · Pittman v. Pittman · R & R LOUNGE, INC. v. Wynne · 286 So. 2d 596 - State v. Lee
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Under the new provisions of Section 39.10(5), ... there is no authority to award custody to a foster home where there are relatives fit, ready, willing and able to undertake such custody... . "The theme of the new statute has been articulated in the annals of the jurisprudence of this state before, and perhaps it is only now being codified because of the recent trend toward institutionally controlled custody in preference to that of remote blood relatives."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““(6) In all cases in which one or both of the parents of a child is unable or unfit to be awarded custody and in which the child has a close relative who is fit, ready, able, and willing to be awarded such custody, the court shall award the custody of the child to such close relative and not to any foster home or agency of the state.”,”
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.