Jones v. Jones’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently September 2018
10 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 458 So. 2d 81 - Holland v. Holland · 450 So. 2d 1268 - Elebash v. Elebash · McAlister v. Shaver · 583 So. 2d 415 - Kennedy v. Kennedy
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is incumbent upon the trial court to ensure that any purported agreement or arrangement between a child's parents does not shortchange the child's interests. `It is undisputed, and should be indisputable, that a trial court's responsibility to the child cannot be abdicated to any parent, any expert. That heavy responsibility mandates that a court is not bound by any agreement between parents.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“best interests of the children are to govern the custody decision, regardless of any stipulation between the parties”
2 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.