Meyer v. Meyer’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2020
23 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 Livadas v. Aubry · Lane v. Schenck · Varnum v. Varnum · Jakab v. Jakab · LeDoux v. LeDoux
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'we will not disturb the court's determination unless its exercise of discretion was on grounds or for reasons clearly untenable, or the exercise of discretion was to a clearly unreasonable extent.' " Herring , 2011 VT 38 , ¶ 6, 190 Vt. 19 , 24 A.3d 574 (quoting Meyer v. Meyer , 173 Vt. 195 , 197, 789 A.2d 921 , 923 (2001) ). As we concluded in Herring , "[d]espite the deference we give the trial court, we cannot uphold its decision in this case because”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Atherton v. Atherton“courts may take into account a parent's religious practices when making a custodial determination if there is evidence that the practices have a direct and negative impact on the child's physical or mental health. [Citations omitted.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[m]other presented extensive evidence that the conflicting practices and rules in each household that stemmed from her and father's disparate religious beliefs were causing [the children] to experience extreme confusion and anxiety.”
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.