457 So. 2d 321 - Peyton v. Peyton’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently November 2013
12 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 Peters v. Peters · 409 So. 2d 1299 - Nale v. Nale · 421 So. 2d 1185 - Tabor v. Tabor · 441 So. 2d 469 - Sherman v. Sherman
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“1. Is the child aware of the illicit relationship? 2. Has sex play occurred in the presence of the child? 3. Was the sexual misconduct notorious, bringing embarrassment to the child? 4. What effect has this conduct had on the family home life?”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a parent's lack of moral fitness can rebut the presumption favoring joint custody when the evidence shows that the parent's moral values and behavior are detrimental to the child's interests.”
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.