Sinclair v. Albrecht’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2009
23 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 32 Cal. 3d 689 - Kumar v. Superior Court · Fry v. Ball · Roberts v. District Court of Larimer Cty. · Matter of Custody of Ross · State Ex Rel. Marcrum v. Marion County 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“If a court of another state has made a custody decree, a court of this State shall not modify that decree unless (1) it appears to the court of this State that the court which rendered the decree does not now have jurisdiction under jurisdictional prerequisites substantially in accordance with this subarticle or has declined to assume jurisdiction to modify the decree and (2) the court of this State has jurisdiction.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Clay v. Burckle · Knoth v. Knoth
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.