Ebertz v. Ebertz’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Millette v. Millette (2008), Rego v. Rego (2011)
48 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 State v. Phillips · Borchgrevink v. Borchgrevink · Jenkins v. Handel · Schmitz v. Schmitz · In Re Adoption of AFM
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We give 'particular deference' to the trial court's factual findings when they are based primarily on oral testimony, because the trial court, not this court, performs the function of judging the credibility of witnesses and weighing conflicting evidence.”
7 later decisions quote this exact passage“any evidence of domestic violence, child abuse, or child neglect in the proposed custodial household or a history of violence between the parents”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“a clear indication of the factors [that the court] considered important in exercising its discretion or allow us to glean from the record what considerations were involved.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Sweeney v. Organ · Rego v. Rego
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.