666 So. 2d 1192 - Geen v. Geen’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently January 2015
9 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 492 So. 2d 1193 - Bergeron v. Bergeron · 455 So. 2d 1374 - Turner v. Turner · Smith v. Cole · In re J.M.P. · 663 So. 2d 86 - Bynog v. Bynog
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] biological father who knows or has reason to know of the existence of his biological child, and who fails to assert his rights for a significant period of time, cannot later come forward and assert paternity.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“When a trial court has made a considered decree of permanent custody the party seeking a change bears a heavy burden of proving that the continuation of the present custody is so deleterious to the child as to justify a modification of the custody decree, or of proving by clear and convincing evidence that the harm likely to be caused by a change of environment is substantially outweighed by its advantages to the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“as to parental fitness to exercise custody....”
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.