335 So. 2d 261 - Gammon v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
71 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 73 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably 377 So. 2d 798 - Armour v. Allen (1979), 431 So. 2d 204 - Sasso v. Ram Property Management (1983)
71 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 McLaughlin v. Florida · Levy v. Louisiana Ex Rel. Charity Hospital · Eldridge v. Eldridge · 183 So. 2d 532 - Capelouto v. Orkin Exterminating Co. of Florida · Gossett v. Ullendorff
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 73 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"An illegitimate child's right to support cannot be contracted away by its mother. A release executed by her is invalid to the extent that it purports to affect the rights of the child. [citations omitted] The mother is merely the trustee to receive the funds and simply convert them into relief for the children. The obligation of support is for the benefit of the child. Being only a conduit, she has no right to control benefits due and owing to the child by its natural father... ." Id. at 266-67 .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“in order for a statutory classification not to deny equal protection, it must rest on some difference that bears a just and reasonable relation to the statute in respect to which the classification is proposed.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the State of Florida has engaged in numerous classifications without the confines of Chapter 712, Florida Statutes, permitting an illegitimate child to derive support from its natural father, irrespective of the marital status of its mother at the time of its conception, either directly during the father’s lifetime or indirectly through recovery of compensation from the father’s employer or from a tortfea-sor causing the death of the father.”
2 later decisions 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.