631 So. 2d 812 - Murphy v. Murphy’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably 735 So. 2d 1109 - Carter v. Carter (1999), 658 So. 2d 1378 - In Interest of RD (1995)
54 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 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright · Sims v. State · 453 So. 2d 1294 - Tucker v. Tucker · 480 So. 2d 1120 - Carr v. Carr · Johnson v. Black
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A chancellor sits as a fact-finder and in resolving factual disputes, is the sole judge of the credibility of witnesses.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“In child custody cases, the chancellor's duty is to determine what is in the best interest of the child. As such, chancellors should consider any and all evidence which aids them in reaching the ultimate custody decision.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“in the chancellor's failure to appoint a guardian ad litem to represent the children's”
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.