654 So. 2d 1237 - Langford v. Ortiz’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2011
13 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 581 So. 2d 1305 - State v. James · 621 So. 2d 417 - Mize v. Mize · Martinez v. Martinez · Williams v. State · 380 So. 2d 1164 - Bienvenu v. Bienvenu
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) that the child was older and mature; (2) that the child was not yet in school; (3) that the parents lived near each other; (4) that the child preferred rotating custody; (5) that rotation would not have a disruptive effect on the child; (6) that the periods of time spent with each parent were reasonable; and (7) that the periods of custody were related to divisions in the child's life, such as the school year.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[r]otating custody ... is presumptively not in the best interest of a child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“that the lower court should have entered a final order on custody”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Clark
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.