Litz v. Bennum’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2015
12 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 National Labor Relations Board v. International Longshoremen's Ass'n · McGaffin v. Roberts · Sims v. Sims · McKinney v. Sheriff, Clark County · McGlone v. McGlone
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“overcome either by a showing that the parent is unfit or other extraordinary circumstances.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the best interest of the child is usually served by awarding his custody to a fit parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Locklin v. Duka
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.