94 So. 2d 592 - Flagler v. Flagler’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2016 · most notably Aldrich v. Aldrich (1964), 464 So. 2d 131 - Orr v. Trask (1985)
4 federal appellate · 26 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 Taylor v. George · Guinta v. Lo Re · Star Fruit Co. v. Canady · Edelman v. Edelman · Creyts v. Creyts
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts of equity have [no] right or power under the law of Florida to issue such order it considers to be in the best interest of "social justice" at the particular moment without regard to established law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“This court does not necessarily prefer to protect the father's power of testamentary disposition rather than the welfare of the child, but the court does feel that only the legislature has the authority to enact laws dealing with this problem.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the obligation of the father to support the minor child terminated upon the death of the father.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Garcia v. Gonzalez
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.