Passmore v. Passmore’s Empirical Analysis
2002
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently April 2020
15 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 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright · Sellers v. Sellers · 798 So. 2d 1284 - Lee v. Lee · 784 So. 2d 943 - Hollon v. Hollon · 755 So. 2d 1077 - SNc v. JRD, JR.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) age, health and sex of the child; (2) a determination of the parent that has had the continuity of care prior to the separation; (3) which has the best parenting skills and which has the willingness and capacity to provide primary child care; (4) the employment of the parent and responsibilities of that employment; (5) physical and mental health and age of the parents; (6) emotional ties of parent and child; (7) moral fitness of the parents; (8) the home, school and community record of the child; (9) the preference of the child at the age sufficient to express a preference by law; (10) stability of home environment and employment of each parent and”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“intrude on the authority of the chancellor to make findings of fact and apply law to those facts.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]he chancellor must either commit manifest error, act in a way that is clearly erroneous, or apply an erroneous legal standard before this Court can reverse.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mixon v. Sharp
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.