695 So. 2d 1253 - Daniel v. Daniel’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 2018 · most notably Lander v. Smith (2005), Lefler v. Lefler (2001)
38 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 617 So. 2d 305 - DEPT. OF HEALTH & REHAB. SERVICES v. Privette · 279 So. 2d 364 - Taylor v. Taylor · Albert v. Albert · 572 So. 2d 986 - Graves v. Blasser · 570 So. 2d 1338 - Portuondo v. Portuondo
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a person has no legal duty to provide support for a minor child who is neither his natural nor his adopted child and for whose care and support he has not contracted.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. DeRico v. Wilson · Parker v. Parker“(1) a husband, like Michael Daniel, who is not the natural or adoptive parent of a child, and has not otherwise contracted for the child's care and support, has no duty to pay child support upon the dissolution of the marriage; and (2) even though the former husband in this case has no duty to pay child support, the child nevertheless remains "legitimate" because she was born during the parties' valid marriage.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lander v. Smith“now means the status of a child born or conceived during a lawful marriage, whether or not the child received half of his or her genes from the husband, while”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.