Burns v. Burns’s Empirical Analysis
2007
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2025
18 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 Schmidt v. Schmidt · Jelsing v. Peterson · Gullickson v. Kline · Stoppler v. Stoppler · Reimche v. Reimche
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Factor (d) ‘addresses past stability of environment, including a consideration of place or physical setting, as well as a consideration of the prior family unit and its lifestyle as part of that setting. It also addresses the quality of that past environment, and the desirability of maintaining continuity.’ ””
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A finding of fact is clearly erroneous if it is induced by an erroneous view of the law, if no evidence exists to support it, or if the reviewing court, on the entire evidence, is left with a definite and firm conviction a mistake has been made.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“has broad discretion over the conduct of a trial or hearing, including limitations on the number of witnesses.”
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.