571 So. 2d 1176 - Hall v. Hall’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Stack v. Stack (1994), 802 So. 2d 230 - Roberts v. Roberts (2001)
35 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 Blankenship v. Blankenship · 494 So. 2d 95 - Santmier v. Santmier · 448 So. 2d 381 - Smith v. Smith · 531 So. 2d 668 - Shepherd v. Shepherd · 494 So. 2d 431 - Crosslin v. Crosslin
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n an action between parents involving an initial award of custody, it is well settled that the parties stand on equal footing and that no favorable presumption inures to either.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial court would not have been in error regardless of [which parent] was awarded custody of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the trial court is uniquely qualified to observe the parties and resolve issues of their credibility.”
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.