Williams v. Bittel’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
4
cited by 4 later decisions
2
states following
August 2018
most recently cited
4 state decisions
Relationships
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on Moore v. Asente · McDonald v. Hester · Wallace v. Wallace · Mauldin v. Bearden · Sullivan v. Tucker
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The Williamses successfully circumvented the spirit of the law. Their actions create the precise problems that the UCCJEA and the PKPA attempted to avoid: viz., interstate custody disputes and competition. 11”
1 later decision 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.