Fitts v. Poe’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
2
states following
July 1999
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 678 So. 2d 1271 - Beagle v. Beagle · 683 So. 2d 666 - Ward v. Dibble
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e are unable to discern any difference between the fundamental rights of privacy of a natural parent in an intact family and the fundamental rights of privacy of a widowed parent.”
4 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.