88 So. 3d 798 - Blakely v. Blakely’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
17 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright · 557 So. 2d 511 - Newsom v. Newsom · 859 So. 2d 1006 - Johnson v. Gray · 579 So. 2d 543 - Caldwell v. Caldwell · 798 So. 2d 1284 - Lee v. Lee
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[T]he chancellor has the ultimate discretion to weigh the evidence the way [he] sees fit' in determining where the child's best interest lies.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) age, health and sex of the child; (2) a determination of the parent [who] 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 other factors relevant to the parent-child relationship.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The credibility of the witnesses and the weight of their testimony, as well as the interpretation of evidence where it is capable of more than one reasonable interpretation, are primarily for the chancellor as the trier of facts.”
1 later decision 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.