Smith v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
9
cited by 9 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
9 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 268 Ga. App. 624 - Weickert v. Weickert · 302 Ga. App. 597 - Lynch v. Horton · 278 Ga. App. 69 - Ray v. Denton · 309 Ga. App. 730 - Gildar v. Gildar · Wilt v. Wilt
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A petition to change child custody should be granted only if the trial court finds that there has been a material change of condition affecting the welfare of the child since the last custody award. If there has been such a change, then the court should base its new custody decision on the best interest of the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“we are mindful that the Solomonic task of making these decisions lies squarely upon the shoulders of the judge who can see and hear the parties and their witnesses, observe their demeanor and attitudes, and assess their credibility.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sigafoose v. Cobb.
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.