Delgado v. Silvarrey’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently July 2000
10 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 492 So. 2d 1329 - Florida Bar v. Wolf · 98 So. 2d 334 - Cortina v. Cortina · Belford v. Belford · 444 So. 2d 1034 - Zediker v. Zediker · 73 So. 2d 274 - Bennett v. Bennett
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the dual burden of showing that there has been a substantial change of circumstances since the entry of the final judgment and that the best interests of [the child] would be served by a change in custody. Indeed, the parent seeking to modify custody carries an extraordinary burden.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.