Hudema v. Carpenter’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently September 2025 · most notably 2019 UT App 38 - Marroquin v. Marroquin (2019), Bolliger v. Bolliger (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.
Relationships
Relies on Lopez v. Monterey County · Valcarce v. Fitzgerald · City of Riverside v. National Environmental Waste Corp. · A.J. MacKay Co. v. Okland Construction Co. · State ex rel. A.R. & C.P. v. C.R.
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.
“Generally, it is within the trial court's discretion to determine, based on the facts before it and within the confines set by the appellate courts, where a particular factor falls within the spectrum of relative importance and to accord each factor its appropriate weight.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“At the critically important end of the spectrum, when the child is thriving, happy and well-adjusted, lies continuity of placement.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Before modifying a custody order, the court conducts a bifurcated inquiry to determine ... [whether] there has been a substantial and material change in the cireumstances upon which ... [eusto-dy was awarded and] whether a modification is in the best interests of the child.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.