119 Mich. App. 319 - Henry v. Henry’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently August 2002
10 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.
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“focuses on what is in the best interest of the new family unit, i.e., custodial parent and child, and not what is in the best interest of the child; the latter having been decided in the earlier custody hearings”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Taylor“[a]rbitrary imposition of the `best interests of the child' test in all matters concerning children is illogical at best and cruelly insensitive at worst.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Love“whether the general quality of life for both the custodial parent and the child will be improved by the removal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Love
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.