62 So. 2d 907 - Cone v. Cone’s Empirical Analysis
1953
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently August 2017 · most notably Yurgel v. Yurgel (1990), 156 So. 2d 501 - Hightower v. Bigoney (1963)
55 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 Frazier v. Frazier · Leclerc v. Leclerc · Pollack v. Pollack · Meadows v. Meadows · Fisher v. Guidy
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It should also be noted that the [dissolution] complaint itself, when children are involved, invokes the jurisdiction of the court as to two separate and distinct matters; it invokes the jurisdiction of the court on the question of divorce, which jurisdiction is completely and finally exercised when a decree on such question is entered, and it also invokes the continuing jurisdiction of the court as to the welfare of the children, which jurisdiction is not completely exercised until the children reach their majority. (Emphasis supplied.)”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * [T]he custody of a minor child of divorced parents is properly considered at any time by the court which granted the decree. This is so independently of statute for the reason that when chancery once acquires jurisdiction over a subject matter, it will continue to exercise that jurisdiction so long and so often as the occasion may require for the purpose of making its decree effective and for the granting of full and final relief in the premises. A court of chancery has inherent jurisdiction to control and protect infants and their property, and such court may exercise its continuing jurisdiction to modify its decree as to the custody of the children until the children reach their majority." [2]”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * The children want to stay with Mrs. Evans, rather than go to their father; and, while this is not controlling, it is certainly entitled to special consideration in determining the question of custody. We think, then, that considering all the circumstances and, particularly, the ages of the children, their best interests would be served by awarding their custody to Mrs. Evans, for the present, with such provisions for visitation by the father and support money for the children as may to the Chancellor seem fitting and proper." (Emphasis added.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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