Logan v. Logan’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 23 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright · 437 So. 2d 410 - Tedford v. Dempsey · 637 So. 2d 850 - Chamblee v. Chamblee · Sellers v. Sellers · 642 So. 2d 901 - Carrow v. Carrow
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Where a stepfather, as an incident to a new marriage, has agreed to support the children of a previous marriage, or where he does so over a period of time and the mother and the children in good faith rely to their detriment on that support, the best interests of the children require entry of a child support decree against the stepfather. Thus, it follows that if a stepparent can be required to pay child support for a stepchild based on his support of the stepchild over a period of time, where it is in the best interests of the child, he should be allowed to have custody of the stepchild based on the affection for and support of that child over a period of time. With the burden should go the benefit.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“[H]uman experience has demonstrated that as a general rule parental love and solicitude for the child's welfare are the best guarantee that it will be properly cared for and trained for that station in life for which it will likely be best fitted. The presumption in all cases is that the child's parents will love it most and care for it better than anyone else and it is in the best interest of the child to leave it in the custody of a parent.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[A] person acting in loco parentis [is] one who has assumed the status and obligations of a parent without a formal adoption.”
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.