579 So. 2d 634 - Murphree v. Murphree’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently September 2016
22 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 494 So. 2d 95 - Santmier v. Santmier · Maddox v. Maddox · 531 So. 2d 668 - Shepherd v. Shepherd · 345 So. 2d 321 - Travis v. Travis · 537 So. 2d 946 - Jones v. Haraway
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he award of attorney's fees in a divorce action is a matter within the sound discretion of the trial court, which should consider such factors as the conduct of the parties, the financial circumstances of the parties, and the outcome of the litigation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Before custody may be denied on the basis of indiscreet behavior, there must be evidence showing that such misconduct is detrimental to the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The controlling consideration in child custody matters is always the best interests of the child.”
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.