455 So. 2d 778 - Torrence v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 2011
19 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 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright · 355 So. 2d 667 - Richardson v. Riley · 431 So. 2d 1139 - Cheek v. Ricker · Ballard v. Ballard · Duncan v. Duncan
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.
“a child of 7 [years of age] has been held by this Court to be long past the age prior to which it [sic] requires attention of such a character from the mother.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the advent of school age was a material change in circumstances that rendered the split custody of the child useless and even harmful to the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“In all cases where any child is of such tender age as to require the mother's care for its physical welfare, it should be awarded to her custody, at least until it reaches that age and maturity where it can be equally well cared for by other persons.”
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.