441 So. 2d 494 - Carroway v. Carroway’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2002 · most notably 700 So. 2d 533 - Havener v. Havener (1997), Dungan v. Dungan (1986)
38 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 436 So. 2d 1348 - Plemer v. Plemer · 357 So. 2d 69 - Johnson v. Johnson · 325 So. 2d 290 - LeBouef v. LeBouef · 348 So. 2d 1338 - Pate v. Pate · Homes v. Johnson
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"D. For purposes of this Article, "joint custody" shall mean the parents shall, to the extent feasible, share the physical custody of children of the marriage. In making an award of physical custody, the court shall consider, among other things, the factors enumerated in Paragraph (C)(2)...." (Emphasis ours).”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“When the court finds that a decree of joint custody is in the best interest of the child, it does not necessarily require an equal sharing of physical custody.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““... joint custody means a physical sharing of the child in addition to both parents’ participation in decisions affecting the child’s life. However, it does not necessarily mean a fifty-fifty sharing of time. Each case will depend on the child’s age, the parents’ situations, and other factors relevant to a particular child custody dispute.””
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.