Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently May 2018 · most notably Watkins v. Nelson (2000), In Re Guardianship of Williams (1994)
40 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 Cook v. Cobb · Koon v. Koon · Kay v. Rowland · Peay v. Peay · Ex Parte Oehler v. Clinton
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) "[t]he parent must prove that he [or she] is a fit parent, able to properly care for the child and provide a good home"; (2) "[t]he amount of contact, in the form of visits, financial support[,] or both, [that] the parent had with the child while [he or she] was in the care of a third party"; (3) "[t]he circumstances under which temporary relinquishment occurred"; and (4) "[t]he degree of attachment between the child and the temporary custodian."”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“[T]his [c]ourt [has] placed a substantial burden on any third party attempting to take custody over a biological parent and '... recognize[s] the superior rights of a natural parent in a custody dispute with a third party.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dodge v. Dodge · Urban v. Kerscher“If a party relinquishes custody in good faith because of some temporary inability to provide for the child, such parent should be able to regain custody upon a showing that the condition [that] required relinquishment has been resolved. Child custody should not be subject to change because of adverse possession.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Urban v. Kerscher
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.