495 So. 2d 672 - Ex Parte Davis’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently August 2018
7 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 Tucker v. Tucker · 454 So. 2d 1035 - Michael v. Michael · 391 So. 2d 119 - Miller v. Miller · 403 So. 2d 251 - Lacy v. Lacy · Parretti v. Metropolitan Life Ins. Co.
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"the principle of the law that when an original divorce decree deals with property owned by either of the parties to the divorce, and the decree is entered to protect the best interest of the couple's minor children, the trial court retains the power to modify the decree for the benefit of the children."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Shivers v. Shivers
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.