Elder v. Park’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently December 2014
24 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on State v. Lankford · Fry v. Ball · H. T. Coker Construction Co. v. Whitfield Transportation, Inc. · Tufares v. Wright · Allen v. Allen
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * "(5) `Home state' means the state in which the child immediately preceding the time involved lived with his parents, a parent, or a person acting as a parent, for at least six (6) consecutive months.... Periods of temporary absence of any of the named persons are counted as part of the six-month period. "(8) `Physical custody' means actual possession and control of a child. "(9) `Person acting as a parent' means a person other than a parent, who has physical custody of a child and who has either been awarded custody by a court or claims a right to custody. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Draper v. Roberts · Matter of CAD“A district court of [this state] which is competent to decide child custody matters has jurisdiction to make a child custody determination by initial decree or modification decree ... if: (1) [This state]: (a) is the home state of the child at the time of commencement of the proceeding; or (b) had been the child’s home state within six months before commencement of the proceeding and the child is absent from [this state] ... for any other reasons, and a parent or person acting as parent continues to live in [this state][.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Escobar v. Reisinger“immediately preceding the time involved.”
1 later decision 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.