Mathews v. Mathews’s Empirical Analysis
2004
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently November 2024 · most notably Gangwish v. Gangwish (2004), Gress v. Gress (2006)
2 federal appellate · 38 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 Ritter v. Ritter · Heald v. Heald · Gibilisco v. Gibilisco · Central States Foundation v. Balka · CenTra, Inc. v. Chandler Ins. Co., Ltd.
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) [t]he relationship of the minor child to each parent prior to the commencement of the action or any subsequent hearing; (b) [t]he desires and wishes of the minor child if of an age of comprehension regardless of chronological age, when such desires and wishes are based on sound reasoning; (c) [t]he general health, welfare, and social behavior of the minor child; and (d) [credible evidence of abuse inflicted on any family or household member.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Robb v. Robb
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.