Mooney v. Mooney’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2015
5 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 Scott v. SCOTT, ADMRX. · 32 Wis. 2d 223 - Tennessen v. Topel · 155 N.J. Super. 410 - In Re Estate of Neuwirth · Gamble v. Cloud · 382 So. 2d 78 - Ramey v. Thomas
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Since a child’s right to inherit from his natural father does not commence until the death of that father, the child’s rights of inheritance are governed by the statutes then in effect.” In re Mooney's Estate, 395 So.2d 608, 609 (Fla. 5th DCA 1981). Pursuant to sections 63.172 and 732.108, Florida Statutes,”
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.