Agnello v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently February 2009 · most notably Yontef v. Yontef (1981), Turner v. Frowein (2000)
26 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.
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . .reasonable notice and opportunity to be heard shall be given to the contestants, any parent whose parental rights have not been previously terminated and any person who has physical custody of the child. If any of these persons is outside this state, notice and opportunity to be heard shall be given pursuant to Section 46b-95.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“at the time of commencement of the proceeding.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“We note that the question here is not whether jurisdiction existed in Connecticut, but rather whether it should be declined pursuant to § 46b-97. These questions are separate and distinct under the UCCJA which envisages that where concurrent jurisdiction exists, only one state should exercise that jurisdiction. [Citations omitted.] Section 7 of the UCCJA, adopted by the Connecticut General Assembly and codified at General Statutes § 46b-97, . . . permits the courts of our state to decline jurisdiction over custody disputes in accordance with that section. Moreover, in adopting § 1 of the act; General Statutes § 46b-91; the legislature has expressed the intent that CT Page 2463 it is the policy in Connecticut to `assure that litigation concerning the custody of a child take place ordinarily in the state with which the child and his family have the closest connection and where significant evidence concerning his care, protection, training and personal relationships is most readily available, and that courts of this state decline the exercise of jurisdiction when the child and his family have a closer connection with another state . . . .' General Statutes § 46b-91 (a)(3). By its express language, § 46b-97 (c) directs the Connecticut courts, in considering whether to decline to exercise their proper jurisdiction, to `take into account the following factors, including but not limited to' those enumerated therein; see footnote 3, supra; and thus conte”
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.