Keveloh v. Carter’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 9 state decisions

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

1. “A legal residence or `domicile' is the place where a person has fixed an abode with the present intention of making it his or her permanent home.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 971 So. 2d 166 - Snyder v. McLeod · 808 So. 2d 237 - Hale v. Department of Revenue

2. “Under the UCCJA, Florida lacks subject matter jurisdiction. The parties' son was conceived in Illinois, was born in Illinois, and has lived most of his life in Illinois. Florida was never the child's home state. Nor was it the child's home state within six months before this action was commenced. See § 61.1308(1)(a), Fla. Stat. (1995). The child is not present in Florida and there is no basis for emergency jurisdiction. Illinois is clearly the only appropriate forum to decide the paternity and custody issues concerning Shawn. See Dorrity v. Dorrity, 695 So.2d 411 (Fla. 5th DCA 1997); Flores v. Saunders, 674 So.2d 767 (Fla. 5th DCA), rev. denied, 687 So.2d 1305 (Fla.1996); Chapoteau v. Chapoteau, 659 So.2d 1381 (Fla. 3d DCA 1995). Because the Florida court lacked subject matter jurisdiction, its paternity and custody order is void. Chapoteau .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Munnerlyn v. Wingster

3. “Florida courts have personal jurisdiction over nonresidents when that nonresident is properly served with service of process while voluntarily present in the state,”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 852 So. 2d 379 - Pota v. Holtz