29 Or. App. 861 - Carson v. Carson’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently June 2004 · most notably 110 Cal. App. 3d 884 - In Re Marriage of Hopson (1980), Clark v. Clark (1980)
38 state decisions — followed in 12 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 Marriage of Settle · Sweeney v. Jackson County · State v. Sieminski
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the Act the court must go through a multistep process in determining whether to exercise jurisdiction. First it must ascertain whether it has jurisdiction under ORS 109.730. [IC 31-1 -11.6-3] If it finds that there is jurisdiction, then the court must determine whether there is a custody proceeding pending or a decree in another state which presently has jurisdiction. If so, the Oregon [Indiana] court must decline to exercise its jurisdiction. ORS 109.-760(1) and 109.840(1). [IC 31 1-11.6-6] Finally, assuming the court has jurisdiction and there is not a proceeding pending or a decree, the court then must determine under ORS 109.770 and 109.780 [IC 31-1-11.6-7] whether to exercise its jurisdiction because of convenient forum.” [Our insertions.]”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage““It is abundantly clear from the testimony of the parties and witnesses that Troy’s best interests lie with his care and custody being with his mother. The difficult decision for this Court is whether this Court is the appropriate Court to make that decision. Troy was until quite recently a citizen of the State of Delaware and that State has a paramount interest in Troy’s welfare. It seems apparent from a full review of the Uniform Child Custody Act to which both Delaware and Maryland are signators that it would not be unreasonable to reach the conclusion that Delaware is the appropriate forum in which to litigate Troy’s custody. The Uniform Act was enacted to prevent parents from taking children from one jurisdiction to another in order to change the forum in which to determine custody. But, in the present case, it appears that the Circuit Court for Howard County, Maryland is the proper court to exercise jurisdiction over the parties. The Circuit Court for Howard County meets the jurisdictional requirements of the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act. Article 16 Sec. 186 (a) (2) of the Act provides that jurisdiction may be invoked where: ‘it is in the best interest of the child that a court of this State assume jurisdiction because (i) the child and his parents, or the child and at least one contestant, have a significant connection with this State, and (ii) there is available in this State substantial evidence concerning the child’s present or future care, protection, tra”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“If the court is informed during the course of the proceedings that a proceeding concerning the custody of the child was pending in another state before the court assumed jurisdiction, it shall stay the proceeding and communicate with the court in which the other proceeding is pending to the end that the issue may be litigated in the more appropriate forum and that information be exchanged in accordance with sections 19 through 22 [31-1-11.6-19 —31-1-11.6-22] of this chapter. If a court of this state has made a custody decree before being informed of a pending proceeding in a court of another state it shall immediately inform that court of the fact. If the court is informed that a proceeding was commenced in another state after it assumed jurisdiction it shall likewise inform the other court to the end that the issues may be litigated in the 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.