McCready v. McCready’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
54 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 54 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Petrini v. Petrini (1994), Domingues v. Johnson (1991)
54 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 Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Ross v. Hoffman · Davis v. Davis · Taylor v. Taylor · Raible v. Raible
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 54 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]n the more frequent case ... there will be some evidence of changes which have occurred since the earlier [custody] determination was made. Deciding whether those changes are sufficient to require a change in custody necessarily requires a consideration of the best interest of the child. Thus, the question of “changed circumstances” may infrequently be a threshold question, but is more often involved in the “best interest” determination, where the question of stability is but a factor, albeit an important factor, to be considered.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“The desirability of maintaining stability in the life of a child is well recognized....”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the objective to which virtually all other factors speak.”
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.