949 So. 2d 26 - Floyd v. Floyd’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 41 later decisions — most recently April 2020 · most notably 25 So. 3d 274 - Lowrey v. Lowrey (2009), 960 So. 2d 462 - Giannaris v. Giannaris (2007)
41 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 · 824 So. 2d 583 - Hensarling v. Hensarling · Cooper v. Crabb · 755 So. 2d 1077 - SNc v. JRD, JR. · 483 So. 2d 318 - Spain v. Holland
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 41 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] chancellor shall at least include a summary review of the recommendations of the guardian in the court’s findings of fact when the appointment of a guardian is required by law.... While a chancellor is in no way bound by a guardian’s recommendations, a summary of these recommendations in addition to his reasons for not adopting the recommendations is required in the chancellor’s findings of fact and conclusions of law.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“(1) whether there has been a material change in circumstances which adversely affects the welfare of the child and (2) whether the best interest of the child requires a change of custody.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[I]f the court shall find that both parties are fit and proper persons to have custody of the children, and that either party is able to adequately provide for the care and maintenance of the children, the chancellor may consider the preference of a child of twelve (12) years of age or older as to the parent with whom the child would prefer to live in determining what would be in the best interest and welfare of the child. The chancellor shall place on the record the reason or reasons for which the award of custody was made and explain in detail why the wishes of any child were or were not honored.”
2 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.