14 Wash. App. 442 - Wildermuth v. Wildermuth’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2010
12 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 Goldberg v. Kelly · Goss v. Lopez · Meyer v. State of Nebraska · 33 Colo. App. 129 - Christian v. Randall · 14 Wash. App. 194 - McDaniel v. McDaniel
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"We find that the controlling statute requires more than a showing of illicit conduct by the parent who has custody. There must be a showing of the effect of that conduct upon the minor child or children. * * * Unless the record contains evidence from which the trier of fact can reasonably conclude that the child's environment is detrimental to his or her physical, mental, or emotional health and, further, that the harm likely to be caused by a change of environment is outweighed by the advantage of a change to the child, the court errs in entering an order changing custody."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he child's present environment is detrimental to [her] physical, mental, or emotional health”
4 later decisions 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.