382 So. 2d 78 - Ramey v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 2015
18 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 Fuentes v. Shevin · C. D. W. v. State · 344 So. 2d 604 - Harrell v. Branson · 329 So. 2d 389 - Harden v. Thomas · Matter of Adoption of Noble
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In an adoption proceeding, as well as any other kind of proceeding regarding the custody of a child, the primary issue is the best-interest and welfare of the child. Harden v. Thomas, 329 So.2d 389 (Fla. 1st DCA 1976), In re Adoption by Cooper, 242 So.2d 196 (Fla. 1st DCA 1970); In re Vincent's Adoption, 219 So.2d 454 (Fla. 1st DCA 1969).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to protect and promote the well-being of persons being adopted and their natural and adoptive parents and to provide all children who can benefit by it a permanent family life.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“law of Florida recognizes substantial rights between grandparent and grandchild”
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.