Gazo v. Gazo’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably Cabot v. Cabot (1997), Hoover (Letourneau) v. Hoover (2000)
44 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
Applies 26 U.S.C. § 152
Relies on Missouri v. Continential Insurance Cos. · In Re Michael A. · Schleich v. Butterfield · Hughes v. Hughes · Kanaan v. Kanaan
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the parents cannot agree to divide or share parental rights and responsibilities, the court shall award parental rights and responsibilities primarily or solely to one parent.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[t]he use of the word 'primarily' [in the statute] shows that the Legislature expected that some sharing of responsibilities ... could be ordered.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Patnode v. Urette · Shea v. Metcalf“have ... maximum continuing physical and emotional contact with both parents”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Patnode v. Urette · Shea v. Metcalf
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.