407 So. 2d 302 - Mills v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently November 2008
3 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 38 Cal. 2d 676 - Lerner v. Superior Court · Jenks v. Jenks · Fanning v. Warfield · 73 So. 2d 274 - Bennett v. Bennett · 242 Cal. App. 2d 886 - Montandon v. Montandon
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Section 744.301, Florida Statutes (1979), provides in part: If the marriage between the parents is dissolved, the natural guardianship shall belong to the parent to whom the custody of the child is awarded. Section 744.361, Florida Statutes (1979), provides in part: (1) It is the duty of the guardian of the person to take care of the person of the ward, to treat him humanely, and, if he is a minor, to see that he is properly educated and that he has the opportunity to learn a trade, occupation, or profession. There appear to be no decisions in Florida directly ruling upon the right of a non-custodial parent to make educational decisions for children in custody of the other parent... . In Bennett v. Bennett, 73 So.2d 274 (Fla. 1954), the Florida Supreme Court indicated that the custodial parent had the prerogative of making educational decisions. Although Bennett did not discuss the issue in the context of a custodial versus non-custodial parent, the general law throughout the country is clearly to the effect that the grant of custody of a child of divorced parents carries with it, in the absence of some extraordinary and highly unusual circumstances, the right of the custodial parent to make decisions as to the child's education. Fanning v. Warfield, 252 Md. 18 , 248 A.2d 890 (1969). In Montandon v. Montandon, 242 Cal. App.2d 886 , 52 Cal. Rptr. 43 (1966), the California court held that the party to whom custody of children is granted in a divorce decree has the prerogative o”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Connelly v. Connelly
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.