Dodge v. Dodge’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2018
20 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 Cherry v. Thomasson · Epperly v. Epperly · Cook v. Cobb · Aiken County Department of Social Services v. Wilcox · Moore v. Moore
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he amount of contact, in the form of visits, financial support[,] or both, [that] the parent had with the child while [the child] was in the care of a third party.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Urban v. Kerscher“The parent must prove that he [or she] is a fit parent, able to properly care for the child and provide a good home.”
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.