Kent v. Kent’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2012 · most notably 785 So. 2d 376 - Penney v. Penney (2000), Rogers v. Rogers (1995)
26 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 550 So. 2d 986 - Ex Parte Bayliss · 477 So. 2d 445 - Brannon v. Brannon · Thrasher v. Wilburn · 489 So. 2d 597 - Coby v. Coby
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“enrolled as an undergraduate student in any institution of higher learning.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“an ability to comprehend the course subject matter in such a way as to make at least average grades upon examination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he trial court may consider, also, the standard of living that the child would have enjoyed if the marriage had not been dissolved and the family unit had been preserved and the child's relationship with his parents and responsiveness to parental advice and guidance.”
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.