511 So. 2d 489 - Pace v. Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
53 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently December 2012 · most notably 557 So. 2d 511 - Newsom v. Newsom (1990), 612 So. 2d 359 - Century 21 Deep South Prop., Ltd. v. Corson (1992)
53 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 Culbreath v. Johnson · 473 So. 2d 952 - Gavin v. State · 435 So. 2d 683 - Cotton v. McConnell · 355 So. 2d 667 - Richardson v. Riley · 431 So. 2d 1139 - Cheek v. Ricker
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“First, the moving party must prove by a preponderance of the evidence that, since entry of the judgment or decree sought to be modified, there has been a material change in circumstances which adversely affects the welfare of the child. Second, if such an adverse change has been shown, the moving party must show by like evidence that the best interest of the child requires the change of custody.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“[W]hen there are no specific findings of fact, we sometimes assume the trial judge made determinations of fact sufficient to support the evidence.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]here are limitations upon this premise. It is one thing to employ algebraic techniques to imply the numerical content of "X" in the equation 10 + 6 + X = 23. It is altogether different where, as here, we are asked to assume the content of all variables in an equation X + Y + Z = 23 .... We simply have not received enough help from the Chancery Court that we might derive the findings it ought to have made.”
3 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.