Wallace v. Wallace’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Rivero v. Rivero (2009), Edgington v. Edgington (2003)
36 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 Bradley v. Romeo · Culbertson v. Culbertson · Barbagallo v. Barbagallo · Anastassatos v. Anastassatos · Moser v. Moser
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“No ensure that minor children have frequent associations and a continuing relationship with both parents after the parents have ended their relationship”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“It is presumed that a trial court has properly exercised its discretion in determining a child's best interest.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“party threatened with loss of parental rights must be given opportunity to disprove evidence presented.”
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.