Curl v. Curl’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently February 2005
13 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 455 So. 2d 863 - Ex Parte McLendon · Ex Parte Couch · 333 So. 2d 826 - Wood v. Wood · Maslankowski v. Beam Ex Rel. Quernemeon · 479 So. 2d 1257 - Flowers v. Flowers
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Id. (emphasis added). The trial court denied the father's petition and he appealed. Id. This court, in affirming the judgment, concluded that the father was required to meet the McLendon standard in order to succeed on his petition, because, it said, the mother did not”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“would materially promote the child's best interests.”
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.