Millette v. Millette’s Empirical Analysis
2008
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently February 2021 · most notably Limeres v. Limeres (2014), Jaymot v. Skillings-Donat (2009)
30 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 Guin v. Ha · Breck v. Ulmer · Gratrix v. Gratrix · Jenkins v. Handel · Ebertz v. Ebertz
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“evidence that substance abuse by either parent or other members of the household directly affects the emotional or physical well-being of the child”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage“particular deference to the trial court's factual findings when they are based primarily on oral testimony, because the trial court, not this court, performs the function of judging the credibility of witnesses and weighing conflicting evidence.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“definite and firm conviction that a mistake has been made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Pingree v. Cossette · McGraw v. Cox
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.