Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably Luna v. Luna (1979), Burnette v. Bender (1995)
34 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 Norton v. Norton · 17 Ariz. App. 560 - Linton v. Linton · Nace v. Nace · In Re the Marriage of Rowe · Roberts v. Malott
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“changed circumstances that are substantial and continuing”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“To be relevant evidence for a modification, a changed circumstance must occur subsequent to the divorce.”
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.