Ellis v. Lyons CA2/5’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on In Re Marriage of Burgess · Foster v. Foster · 37 Cal. 4th 947 - In Re Marriage of Brown and Yana · 42 Cal. App. 3d 108 - Hawk v. Superior Court · 214 Cal. App. 3d 1367 - In Re the Marriage of Regnery
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The requirement of a finding by the court shall also be satisfied if a court, whether that court hears or has heard the child custody proceedings or not, has made a finding pursuant to subdivision (a) based on conduct occurring within the previous five years.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“special considerations come into play under the Family Code. (See, e.g., §§ 3011, subds. (a)-(b), 3020, subds. (a), (c), 3044.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“against the other party seeking custody of the child, or against the child or the child's siblings,”
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.