508 So. 2d 782 - Cherry v. Cherry’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 2002
5 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 460 So. 2d 368 - Nero v. McWhite · Pape v. Pape · Manning v. Varges · 312 So. 2d 484 - Besade v. Besade · 434 So. 2d 972 - Johnson v. Richardson
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Grandparents do not have any standing to seek custody of a child in a dissolution case pursuant to Chapter 61. If they have had custody of the child, then they may be entitled to notice and an opportunity to be heard. Through filing proper pleadings with the court, they may be granted custody if the child is dependant, or the parents unfit. Based on their willingness to take custody and their fitness, an order granting custody to grandparents may be proper. However, proper pleadings and joinder of the grandparents as parties are essential. ... In a custody dispute between a natural parent and another person, the rights of the parent are paramount unless there is a showing the parent is unfit, or that for some substantial reason, the parent’s custody will be detrimental to the child’s welfare. A person who is not a parent has a much heavier burden of proof to sustain a modification of custody in his favor against the parent, in contrast with the parent in a dissolution context who prevails in a custody matter over another parent, [footnotes omitted].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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