474 So. 2d 1212 - Smith v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2000
17 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 Brunson v. State · 356 So. 2d 1263 - Meltzer v. Meltzer · 377 So. 2d 761 - Desilets v. Desilets · 384 So. 2d 933 - Schottenstein v. Schottenstein · 363 So. 2d 183 - Diaco v. Diaco
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e remind [the father] that a child is entitled to share the good fortune of both parents. [citation omitted]. The child's residence with his mother does not mean that the father must do no more than provide a survival level of support. In this case, as previously noted, the father is not even paying his fair share of the child's basic needs.”
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.