611 So. 2d 874 - Carter v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably 652 So. 2d 1113 - Brooks v. Brooks (1995), 755 So. 2d 1077 - SNc v. JRD, JR. (2000)
33 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 Culbreath v. Johnson · 547 So. 2d 766 - Nichols v. Tedder · 437 So. 2d 410 - Tedford v. Dempsey · 435 So. 2d 683 - Cotton v. McConnell · 549 So. 2d 1309 - Bowers Window & Door Co. v. Dearman
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is presumed that the best interests of the child will be preserved by it remaining with its parents or parent. In order to overcome this presumption there must be a clear showing that the parent has (1) abandoned the child, or (2) the conduct of the parent is so immoral {as} to be detrimental to the child, or (3) the parent is unfit mentally or otherwise to have the custody of his or her child.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. K.D.F. v. J.L.H. · Logan v. Logan“Grandparents have no right of custody of a grandchild, as against a natural parent, a premise reflected in our frequent statements, in custody contests between a parent (or parents) and grandparents, the parent(s) prevail absent a showing they have abandoned the child or are otherwise totally unfit.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. McKee v. Flynt · Grant v. Martin“In those cases where the Court places custody with the grandparent, that judgment arises from sequential findings of legal forfeiture by the natural parent(s) and that the best interests of the child suggest such custody. No grandparent has a right to custody.”
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.