Doyle v. Doyle’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
September 1995
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Fulco v. Fulco · 455 So. 2d 1374 - Turner v. Turner · Lincoln v. French · Meadors v. Pacific Intern. Petroleum, Inc. · 410 So. 2d 1105 - Johnston v. McCullough
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Every child is entitled to the love, nurture, advice and training of both father and mother, whenever feasible. To deny a child her rights to the benefits of joint custody solely because the parents live in two distant states would, in effect, permit one parent to unilaterally cut off the other parent from his child by simply moving to a sufficiently distant state.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Melton v. Melton
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.