Eldridge v. Eldridge’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
223 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 223 later decisions — most recently August 2025 · most notably Jewett v. Jewett (2003), Sablosky v. Sablosky (2001)
223 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 Sanchione v. Sanchione · Ullmann v. State · Banks v. Thomas · Mays v. Mays · Board of Education v. Shelton Education Assn.
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 223 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The contempt remedy is particularly harsh . . . and may be founded solely upon some clear and express direction of the court. . . . One cannot be placed in contempt for failure to read the court's mind. . . . Citing Blaydos v. Blaydos , 187 Conn. 464 , 467 (1982).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“A good faith dispute or legitimate misunderstanding”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. O'Brien v. O'Brien
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.