2 Conn. App. 472 - Pascal v. Pascal’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
44 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 44 later decisions — most recently August 2004 · most notably LaBow v. LaBow (1988), 25 Conn. App. 693 - Savage v. Savage (1991)
44 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 In re Juvenile Appeal (83-CD) · Miller v. Miller · Turgeon v. Turgeon · Ridgeway v. Ridgeway · Hardisty v. Hardisty
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 44 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court's broad discretion to modify custody orders is limited by the requirement that such modifications be based upon `either a material change of circumstances which alters the court's finding of the best interests of the child . . . or a finding that the custody order sought to be modified was not based upon the best interests of the child.' Citations omitted.”
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.