Simmons v. Pinkney’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 3 later decisions — most recently October 2015
3 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 460 So. 2d 368 - Nero v. McWhite · 62 So. 2d 907 - Cone v. Cone · In Re Guardianship of DA McW. · Schilling v. Wood · Heffernan v. Goldman
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The standard which this Court applies is that standard enunciated in the recent Supreme Court case of In Re Guardianship of D.A. McW., 460 So.2d 368 (Fla. 1984). In that case the Supreme Court opined the fundamental concept roots in early common law that a natural parent has the right in the preservation of the natural family unit to a child born of natural parents, except when such custody should be determined to be detrimental to the welfare of a natural child. Also see In Re: Guardianship of D.A. Mc W., 429 So.2d 699 (Fla. 4th DCA 1983).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Kazmierazak v. Query
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.