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637 So. 2d 850 - Chamblee v. Chamblee’s Empirical Analysis

1994

Citation profile

123
cited by 123 later decisions
3
states following
October 2018
most recently cited

123 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 123 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably 689 So. 2d 770 - Bredemeier v. Jackson (1997), 824 So. 2d 583 - Hensarling v. Hensarling (2002)

123 state decisions

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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 · Doris R. Edwards, Etc., Cross-Appellant v. Sears, Roebuck and Company, Cross-Appellees · Culbreath v. Johnson · 563 So. 2d 594 - Bell v. Parker · 547 So. 2d 766 - Nichols v. Tedder

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 123 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “[A]n equitable division of property does not necessarily mean an equal division of property.”
    4 later decisions quote this exact passage
  2. “(1) age, health, and sex of the child; (2) a determination of the parent that has had the continuity of care prior to the separation; (3) which has the best parenting skills and which has the willingness and capacity to provide primary child care; (4) the employment of the parent and responsibilities of that employment; (5) physical and mental health and age of the parents; (6) emotional ties of parent and child; (7) moral fitness of parents; (8) the home, school and community record of the child; (9) the preference of the child at the age sufficient to express a preference by law; (10) stability of home environment and employment of each parent, and other factors relevant to the parent-child relationship.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage
  3. “The credibility of the witnesses and the weight of their testimony, as well as the interpretation of evidence where it is capable of more than one reasonable interpretation, are primarily for the chancellor as the trier of facts.”
    3 later decisions 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.