Schuyler v. Briner’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2024
16 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 C.R.B. v. C.C. · Bunn v. House · Burgess v. Burgess · Dewey v. Dewey · Morino v. Swayman
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An award of custody of a child or visitation with the child may be modified if the court determines that a change in circumstances requires the modification of the award and the modification is in the best interests of the child.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“left with a definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“if, in our independent judgment, 'the facts alleged, even if proved, cannot warrant modification, or if the allegations are so general or conclusory, and so convincingly refuted by competent evidence, as to create no genuine issue of material fact requiring a hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hope P. v. Flynn G.
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.