McCoy v. McCoy’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently June 2010
24 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 407 So. 2d 559 - Ex Parte Sullivan · Pickens v. Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States · Doby v. Carroll · Evans v. Rosser · 414 So. 2d 892 - Silverman v. Charmac, Inc.
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“will not be disturbed on appeal unless they are palpably wrong, manifestly unjust, or without supporting evidence.”
10 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Wallace · Ex Parte Proctor“[w]e have always required strict adherence to the statutory requirements in adoption proceedings.”
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.