Lovin v. Lovin’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 2012
15 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 Blotske v. Leidholm · Keyes v. Amundson · Van Dyke v. Van Dyke · Porter v. Porter · Barstad v. Barstad
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In a change of custody proceeding, the best interests of the child must be measured against the backdrop of the stability of the child’s relationship with the custodial parent. The important factor in weighing stability is the stability of the child’s relationship with the custodial parent. However, notwithstanding a happy normal child with strong bonds of attachment to the custodial parent, egregious violations of specific court ordered visitation, evidence of an intransigent attitude against visitation rights and alienating behavior can weigh against the child’s best interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sweeney v. Sweeney
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.