Watson v. Watson’s Empirical Analysis
2006
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently February 2025 · most notably Rosen v. Celebrezze (2008), Miller v. Mathias (2012)
50 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Spaghetti Ltd. Partnership v. Wolfe · Curran v. Buser · In Re Estate of Rosso · White v. White · 132 Cal. App. 4th 1193 - Grahm v. Superior Court
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“shall allow the parties to submit information”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“(a) Except as otherwise provided in section 43-1241 [temporary emergency jurisdiction], a court of this state which has made a child custody determination consistent with section 43-1238 [initial child custody determination] or 43-1240 [jurisdiction to modify determination] has exclusive, continuing jurisdiction over the determination until: (1) a court of this state determines that neither the child, nor the child and one parent, nor the child and a person acting as a parent have a significant connection with this state and that substantial evidence is no longer available in this state concerning the child's care, protection, training, and personal relationships; or (2) a court of this state or a court of another state determines that the child, the child's parents, and any person acting as a parent do not presently reside in this state. (b) A court of this state which has made a child custody determination and does not have exclusive, continuing jurisdiction under this section may modify that determination only if it has jurisdiction to make an initial determination under section 43-1238.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““A court with exclusive and continuing jurisdiction may decline to exercise its jurisdiction if it determines that it is ‘an inconvenient forum under the circumstances and that a court of another state is a more appropriate forum.’ ””
2 later decisions 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.