Odegard v. Odegard’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently August 2023
16 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 Blow v. Lottman · Ferguson v. Ferguson · J. S. v. K. G. · Silseth v. Levang · Kostelecky v. Kostelecky
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.
““Ever since Ferguson v. Ferguson, 202 N.W.2d 760 (N.D.1972), this court has treated the finding that the best interest of the child requires custody in one parent or the other as a finding of fact which we will not reverse unless clearly erroneous.” Odegard v. Odegard, 259 N.W.2d 484, 485 (N.D.1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Voth v. Voth““. . . fitness of parents is not the test for awards-of-custody matters in this State.” Odegard v. Odegard, 259 N.W.2d 484, 485, 486 (N.D.1977).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vetter v. Vetter“Recently we reiterated unanimously that: “. . . custody, once granted, should not be changed for light or transient reasons . . . ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Vetter v. Vetter
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.