Thompson v. Thompson’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
62 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 62 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably 661 So. 2d 706 - Warlick v. Warlick (1995), McKinley v. McKinley (1994)
62 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 390 So. 2d 1325 - Bordelon v. Bordelon · 383 So. 2d 1231 - Cleeton v. Cleeton
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 62 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In child custody cases, the decision of the trial court is to be given great weight and overturned only where there is a clear abuse of discretion.”
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.