30 So. 3d 429 - Tb v. Th’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

27 state decisions

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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “'[I]n order to make a disposition of a child in the context of a dependency proceeding, the child must in fact be dependent at the time of that disposition .'”

   8 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Brock v. Herd · J.A. v. C.M.

2. ““In this case ... the judge attempted to exercise his powers as a circuit-court judge to decide a custody case in a juvenile-court proceeding. However, ... the judge had no jurisdiction to adjudicate custody of the child in the juvenile court once he determined that the case was not a dependency case. Although cloaked with the authority to act as a circuit-court judge, that authority did not enable the judge to enlarge the jurisdiction of the juvenile court and rule on matters outside that court’s jurisdiction. Therefore, the final judgment entered in case number JU-07-420.01, as well as any pendente lite order entered by the juvenile court affecting the custody of the child and all the proceedings after the court elected to treat this case as a custody case and not a dependency case, are void.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. S.J.S. v. H.M.