Marshall v. Marshall’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently February 2007
16 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 187 So. 2d 695 - United Contractors, Inc. v. United Construction Corp. · 279 So. 2d 364 - Taylor v. Taylor · 137 So. 2d 627 - Joel Strickland Enterprises v. Atlantic Discount Co. · McMichael v. McMichael · Parsley Brothers Construction Co. v. Humphrey
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Based on [the acknowledgment of paternity], an amended birth certificate was issued on which the husband was shown as the child’s father. Neither party disputes that the affidavits were untrue and that the husband was not the natural father. The conclusions of the trial judge, as well as the arguments of the parties, evidence a basic misconception of the issue involved. Both the parties and the judge viewed this proceeding as a contest between the husband and the wife. However, the real party in interest is the child. # ¾: ⅜ ⅜; ⅜ ⅜; As noted above, the paramount concern is for the welfare of the child. The husband is presumed to have known the legal consequence of his actions. Since parents are legally obligated to support their minor children, the husband accepted this support obligation by acknowledging paternity. A change in parenthood should not be taken lightly nor should the “parent” be able to so easily divest himself of all responsibility upon the termination of the marriage. As Judge Walden noted in his dissent in Taylor v. Taylor, 279 So.2d 364 (Fla. 4th DCA 1973): When the legitimacy and support of a child rests unilaterally in the hands and at the whim of the husband, a child’s world would never be safe. His standing and status would be a day by day thing with the child powerless in the premises and the whole decision all the days of the child’s life would be in jeopardy. We agree with the concern expressed by Judge Walden. We feel that in this instance, the . bes”
3 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.