Howard v. Howard’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2018
13 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 Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests v. Site Evaluation Committee · Pugliese v. Town of Northwood Planning Board · Perreault v. Cook · Provencal v. Provencal · Taylor v. Davidson Rubber Co.
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“is not the preferred procedure in custody cases. The emotional trauma that children are subject to during custody disputes can have long-lasting psychological effects and thus, should be avoided whenever possible”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Womack v. Swan
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.