Gurney v. Gurney’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 689 So. 2d 770 - Bredemeier v. Jackson (1997), Reavis v. Reavis (1998)
44 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.
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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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Here the stipulation for joint custody included representations by the parties that sharing of custody was in the best interests of the child, and those representations were made by the parties with full knowledge of each other's history. A party, based on that representation, should be estopped from later arguing at a modification hearing that the other party should lose entitlement to joint custody because of premarriage and/or predivorce lifestyle. The determination at a modification of eus-tody hearing to go back into time to revisit a party's predivorce, and in this instance premarriage, lifestyle seems obtrusive, especially where no connection was made depicting how the premarriage lifestyle relates to the present lifestyle or parenting abilities.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Selvey v. Selvey
How this case has been treated — in progress
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