Broadbent v. Broadbent’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently September 2020
23 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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 3 Cal. 3d 914 - Gibson v. Gibson · Goller v. White · 156 Ill. 2d 76 - Cates v. Cates · Hewlett v. George · Holodook v. Spencer
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.
“to protect the right of parents to raise their children by their own methods and in accordance with their own attitudes and beliefs”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Zellmer v. Zellmer“the exercise of ordinary parental discretion with respect to provisions for the care and necessities of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
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.