12 Wash. App. 263 - Selivanoff v. Selivanoff’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2003
8 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 76 Wash. 2d 533 - Rankin v. Ferriter · 54 Wash. 2d 413 - Malfait v. Malfait · 44 Wash. 2d 833 - Brim v. Struthers · 48 Wash. 2d 502 - Klettke v. Klettke · 67 Wash. 2d 469 - Peugh v. Peugh
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Thus, a change in custody would seem to be justified under either of two conditions, when (a) there has been a material change in conditions or fitness of the parties, or (b) the welfare of the children would be promoted thereby. In a number of cases the court has strongly emphasized that, after a custody arrangement has been settled or fixed by the court, a change in conditions or circumstances is requisite for a change in custody. The underlying reasoning is sound. Changes in custody can be and usually are upsetting to children. Consequently, a change in custody should be made only when the welfare of the child or children is an overriding and clearly compelling consideration. Any change in the conditions or circumstances of either parent is of little moment in custody matters, unless the welfare of the children is directly and significantly affected thereby. Thus, the phrase, a change in conditions, in application and meaning actually relates to the welfare of the children involved; and, upon analysis, the requirement that a change of conditions be shown in order to modify custody provisions is simply another way of stating that a showing must be made that .the welfare and the best interests of the children clearly require a change in custody.”
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.