Teeter v. Teeter’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently April 2024 · most notably Holcomb v. Holcomb (1989), Hoyt v. Hoyt (1990)
56 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 Blakemore v. Blakemore · Cherry v. Cherry · Berish v. Berish · Wolfe v. Wolfe
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 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(t)he trial court's judgment cannot be disturbed on appeal absent a showing that the trial court abused its discretion *** '(t)he term 'abuse of discretion' connotes more than an error of law or judgment, it implies that the court's attitude is unreasonable, 'arbitrary or unconscionable'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Carter v. Carter
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.