Atkinson v. Atkinson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 45 later decisions — most recently June 2008 · most notably Johnson v. Johnson (1988), Donahue v. Donahue (1989)
2 federal appellate · 41 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 Brown v. Brown · Simmons v. Simmons · Wilson v. Wilson · Graham v. Graham · Odom v. Odom
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 45 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Proper appellate review is extremely difficult, if not impossible, where a lower court order omits specific findings of fact to support its legal conclusions. We appreciate the problems which Family Court Judges may have from time to time in meeting the require ments of [Rule 26(a)], Unremitting workloads and arduous responsibilities hamstring even the most dedicated. Nonetheless, we believe that strict compliance with the rule promotes the administration of justice at every judicial level.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.