Potter v. Potter’s Empirical Analysis
2005
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Leven v. Frey (2007), Rivero v. Rivero (2009)
23 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 Beazer Homes Nevada, Inc. v. Eighth Judicial District Court of the State of Nevada · State v. Catanio · Schwartz v. Schwartz · Metz v. Metz · State Department of Human Resources, Welfare Division v. Estate of Ullmer
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If custody has been established and the custodial parent intends to move his or her residence to a place outside of this State and to take the child with him or her . . . .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“whether it is in the best interest of the child to live with parent A in a different state or parent B in Nevada.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Druckman v. Ruscitti“whether one parent had de facto primary custody of the child prior to the motion”
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.