5 Florida opinions name it 2 courts 1983–2017 0 in the last five years
The cases below were cited by Florida courts in a sentence that names this issue. Sides come from how each citing opinion treated the case (Syfertize flag on that citation), so a case can appear on both: that is where the law is contested. A red or yellow chip is the case's own overall treatment.
| Case | Followed | Cited |
|---|---|---|
Tompkins v. Stategreen2 sentences2016See Tompkins, 994 So.2d at 1088-89 . 2016See Tompkins, 994 So. 2d at 1088-89 . 7 | 2 | 2 |
Lambrix v. Stategreen1 sentence2017See Lambrix, 39 So.3d at 266, n.10 . | 1 | 1 |
| Case | Negative | Cited |
|---|---|---|
| No negative-treatment citations attached to this issue in Florida. Read the followed side critically anyway. | ||
| Case | Cited | Years |
|---|---|---|
Interest of Kh
green
1 sentence1997(Emphasis supplied.) The Department also relied upon The Interest of K.H., 444 So.2d 547 (Fla. 1st DCA 1984). | 1 | 1997–1997 |
In Interest of CMH
green
1 sentence1983Admittedly C.M.H. declared those recitals "not necessary," 413 So.2d at 428 , but they were the basis of the court's conclusion concerning the "best interest of the child." Conceding a superficial conflict between our view of statutory requirements and the court's analysis in C.M.H., the conflict is of no consequence if, as appears, C.M.H. simply poured meaning from the broad concepts of abandonment, abuse, and neglect into a broader concept, "the best interest of the child." If C.M.H. intended rather that "best interest of the child" in foster care should be a freestanding test, indeterminate | 1 | 1983–1983 |
Opinions by the citing court's state. A doctrine retained in one state and abandoned in another shows up here as a year span that stalls.