Ross v. Ross’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2009
9 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 322 So. 2d 22 - Dinkel v. Dinkel · 167 So. 2d 256 - Lyle v. Lyle · Kahn v. Kahn · 95 So. 2d 25 - Grant v. Corbitt · Anderson v. Anderson
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.
“[I]n a child custody proceeding, it is the function of the trial judge to determine what is in the best interests of the child. An appellate court should not reverse the trial judge's findings absent a showing of abuse of discretion.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“other essential factors being equal, the mother of the infant of tender years should receive prime consideration for custody.”
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.