Bissonette v. Gambrel’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Mullin v. Phelps (1994), Cabot v. Cabot (1997)
54 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 Harris v. Harris · Ely v. Ely · Bonanno v. Bonanno · Price v. Price · Poulin v. Upham
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“draw upon [its] own common sense, . . . experience in life, and the common experience of mankind and be able to reach a reasoned judgment.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“focus of the court's decision must be the best interest of the child, not equity between the parties”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“requires comparison of the attributes of each parent.”
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.