621 So. 2d 455 - Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently April 2010
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 531 So. 2d 113 - Barron v. Florida Freedom Newspapers, Inc. · 452 So. 2d 647 - French v. French · Lovelady v. Lovelady · 602 So. 2d 682 - Braman v. Braman
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 parent who was awarded temporary custody is entitled to no presumption on account of the temporary award.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“61.13 Custody and support of children; visitation rights; power of court in making order. * * * * * * (3) For purposes of shared parental responsibility and primary residence, the best interests of the child shall include an evaluation of all factors affecting the welfare and interests of the child, including, but not limited to: (a) The parent who is more likely to allow the child frequent and continuing contact with the nonresidential parent. (b) The love, affection, and other emotional ties existing between the parents and the child. (c) The capacity and disposition of the parents to provide the child with food, clothing, medical care or other remedial care recognized and permitted under the laws of this state in lieu of medical care, and other material needs. (d) The length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory environment and the desirability of maintaining continuity. (e) The permanence, as a family unit, of the existing or proposed custodial home. (f) The moral fitness of the parents. (g) The mental and physical health of the parents. (h) The home, school, and community record of the child. (i) The reasonable preference of the child, if the court deems the child to be of sufficient intelligence, understanding, and experience to express a preference. (j) The willingness and ability of each parent to facilitate and encourage a close and continuing parent-child relationship between the child and the other parent. (k) Any other fact considered by the court”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whenever in chapter 61 the legislature actually wanted the trial judge to spell out factual findings in written judgments, it knew how to say so.”
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.