Robinson v. Ashmore’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
79 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 79 later decisions — most recently March 2004 · most notably Gazaway v. Brackett (1978), Hopkins v. Hopkins (1976)
79 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 Williams v. Crosby · Handley v. Handley · Fortson v. Fortson · Young v. Pearce
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 79 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'reasonable evidence’ in the record to support the decision made by the habeas corpus court,” in which situation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nodvin v. Nodvin · Motes v. Stanton“`A change of circumstances that would render a prior judgment inconclusive is not necessarily limited to a change in the moral or financial condition of the parent to whom the initial award was made, but includes any new and material change in the circumstances of either parent or of the children which might substantially affect the health, happiness, or welfare of the children.' (Emphasis supplied.),”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“incumbent . . . to hear evidence with respect to changed conditions and render a decision based upon [that judge's] discretion and good judgment as [that judge] viewed the evidence, giving primary consideration to the welfare of the child.”
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.