Bottoms v. Bottoms’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Cooper Industries, Inc. v. Melendez (2000), Boswell v. Boswell (1998)
42 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 115 S. Ct. 89 - Green v. United States · Yarborough v. Commonwealth · Fred C. Walker Agency, Inc. v. Lucas · Bailes v. Sours · Malpass v. Morgan
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Absent clear evidence to the contrary in the record, the judgment of a trial court comes to an appellate court with a presumption that the law was correctly applied to the facts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Bailes, 231 Va. at 100 , 340 S.E.2d at 827 . The term”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that a lesbian mother is not per se an unfit parent”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boswell v. Boswell
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.