Rivers v. Rivers’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
May 1994
most recently cited
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Blare v. Blare · Spaulding v. Spaulding
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“harmful effect of parental misconduct committed in the presence of a child old enough to see and recognize it is self-evident.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chicoine v. Chicoine
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.