Kaiser v. Kaiser’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently January 2025
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 Shapiro v. Thompson · In Re Marriage of Burgess · Ireland v. Ireland · 144 N.J. Super. 200 - D'Onofrio v. D'Onofrio · MATTER OF TROPEA v. Tropea
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"A parent entitled to the custody of a child has a right to change his residence, subject to the power of the district court to restrain a removal which would prejudice the rights or welfare of the child.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“"The majority of jurisdictions which have considered this subject have adopted approaches which favor the custodial parent's right to move away from the state with their child even though they do not have a presumptive right to relocate statute * * *. While the relevant statutory enactments which are placed at issue in those cases vary widely from state to state and some states have no applicable statutes, the decisions are generally based on judicial recognition of the post-divorce new family unit, and stability and continuity of the child's relationship with his primary custodian as the most important factor affecting the child's welfare. These courts also recognize that the well-being of the child is fundamentally interrelated with the well-being of the custodial parent, and that parent is the best person to make decisions affecting the child and the new family group, such as where they will reside. The courts therefore accord those childrearing decisions deference, and hold that judicial intervention in that decision making process should be limited to only the most extreme circumstances."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bodne v. Bodne · Dupre v. Dupre“maintain the existing visitation patterns.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Bodne v. Bodne · Hart v. Bertsch
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.