569 So. 2d 1213 - McManus v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
32 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably 587 So. 2d 892 - Buchanan v. Buchanan (1991), Combs v. Sherry-Combs (1993)
32 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 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright · Newell v. Hinton · East v. East · 453 So. 2d 1294 - Tucker v. Tucker · 511 So. 2d 489 - Pace v. Owens
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This is as true of agreements made in the process of the termination of the marriage by divorce as of any other kind of negotiated settlement.”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hen the subject of the Agreement is the custody of minor children . . ., other considerations override the basic rule.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McKee v. Flynt · Lowrey v. Lowrey“The court simply cannot surrender or subordinate its jurisdiction and authority as to the circumstances and conditions which will cause a change in custody. We hold such an Agreement to be void and contrary to public policy.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McKee v. Flynt
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.