Hurt v. Hurt’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently July 2024
9 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 Aus v. Carter · Reeves v. Chepulis · Kjelland v. Kjelland · Schmaltz v. Schmaltz · Hendrickson v. Hendrickson
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court cannot delegate this responsibility to a guardian ad litem or other independent investigator. The weight assigned to a guardian ad litem’s testimony and recommendation is within the trial court’s discretion, and the court does not have to, nor should it, regard a guardian ad litem’s testimony and recommendation as conclusive.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hogan v. Hogan“Evidence of domestic violence which does not trigger the presumption, nonetheless, remains one of the best interest factors to be considered by the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Niemann v. Niemann
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.