Stone v. Wall

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding parent and natural guardian of minor child had valid tortious interference with custodial parent-child relationship claim against third-party abductors
• noting that cause of action “requires physical absence of child from home”
• “The elements of the cause of action include that the plaintiff had superior custody rights to the child and that the defendant intentionally interfered with those rights.”
• court reasoning that \outdated common law principles based on the view that children are nothing more than the economic assets of their parents\ should be replaced with a tort that is \not predicated on loss of services but on the sanctity of the parent-child relationship\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

21 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Jews for Jesus, Inc. v. Rapp
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2008-10-23· cited 156×
• Malicki v. Doe
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2002-03-14· cited 138×
• Beal Bank, SSB v. Almand and Associates
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2001-03-01· cited 131×
• Coward v. Wellmont Health System
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2018-05-03· cited 126×
• SOUTHERN BAPTIST HOSP. OF FLORIDA v. Welker
  Supreme Court of Florida· 2005-04-14· cited 53×
• Wyatt v. McDermott
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 2012-04-20· cited 25×
• Lapides v. Trabbic
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2000-09-07· cited 16×
• Haines v. Vogel
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2021-04-07· cited 16×
• Nims v. Harrison
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2000-09-21· cited 13×
• Hardick v. Homol
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-10-05· cited 10×
• Yulia Forest Kohl v. Norman Dean Kohl, Jr.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2014-10-01· cited 10×
• Stewart v. Walker
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2009-02-25· cited 9×
• Welker v. Southern Baptist Hosp. of Florida, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2004-01-08· cited 6×
• Baumstein v. Sunrise Community, Inc.
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1999-07-07· cited 6×
• Brown v. Brown
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-11-28· cited 5×
• Davis v. Hilton
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 2001-03-07· cited 5×
• Woodburn v. Florida Department of Children & Family Services
  S.D. Florida· 2011-12-01· cited 4×
• Walter L. Stone, Individually, and as Natural Guardian of S.P.S., a Minor v. Georgene Wall, Gina Wall Masterson, Brock Green
  Eleventh Circuit· 1999-09-16· cited 1×
• Stone v. Wall
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-03-02
• Ramona Spencer v. Jodi R. Philipp, John A. Philipp, 2 Jo's Farm, Lynda R. Payne, Robert E. Payne, and Laura Palumbo
  Court of Appeals of Iowa· 2014-08-27

Cites

44 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hoffman v. Jones
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-10· cited 727×
• Metropolitan Life Ins. Co. v. McCarson
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-03-07· cited 297×
• Bishop v. Florida Specialty Paint Co.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1980-10-23· cited 244×
• Borer v. American Airlines, Inc.
  California Supreme Court· 1977-05-06· cited 198×
• Gary McDougald Cross-Appellant v. Vivian L. Jenson, Cross-Appellee, Clarence Ehli, Cross-Appellee
  Eleventh Circuit· 1986-04-21· cited 177×
• Gates v. Foley
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1971-04-07· cited 144×
• Kessel v. Leavitt
  West Virginia Supreme Court· 1998-07-22· cited 122×
• Von Eiff v. Azicri
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1998-11-12· cited 91×
• McBride v. Magnuson
  Oregon Supreme Court· 1978-05-23· cited 89×
• Londono v. Turkey Creek, Inc.
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1992-10-29· cited 80×
• Silcott v. Oglesby
  Texas Supreme Court· 1986-12-17· cited 76×
• Dymek v. Nyquist
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1984-09-18· cited 74×
• Marshak v. Marshak
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1993-07-27· cited 72×
• Stone v. Wall
  Eleventh Circuit· 1998-03-02· cited 70×
• Larson v. Dunn
  Supreme Court of Minnesota· 1990-08-31· cited 55×
• Yordon v. Savage
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1973-07-05· cited 53×
• Zorzos v. Rosen by and Through Rosen
  Supreme Court of Florida· 1985-04-04· cited 51×
• Plante v. Engel
  Supreme Court of New Hampshire· 1983-12-07· cited 51×
• Murphy v. LS.K.Con. of New England, Inc.
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1991-05-01· cited 50×
• D & D Fuller CATV Construction, Inc. v. Pace
  Supreme Court of Colorado· 1989-10-02· cited 47×