515 So. 2d 281 - Ours v. Ours’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 2003
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 444 So. 2d 1034 - Zediker v. Zediker · Teta v. Teta · 509 So. 2d 276 - Florida Bar re: Amendments to Florida Rules of Appellate Procedure & Rules of Judicial Administration
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.
“In Zediker v. Zediker, 444 So.2d 1034 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984), this court held that a noncustodial parent seeking to modify child custody carries the extraordinary burden of showing that changes occurring after the entry of the original custody decree represent a substantial change in circumstances and that the welfare of the children would be promoted by a change in custody.”
1 later decision 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.