Hardin v. Hardin’s Empirical Analysis
2016
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
October 2018
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Wrightson v. Wrightson · Dellinger v. Dellinger · Weaver v. Jones · Pearce v. Pearce · Johnson v. Johnson
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A review of the case law regarding prohibited self-executing provisions shows that they can generally be summarized as having one of two critical flaws. First, self-executing provisions that rely on a third party's future exercise of discretion essentially delegate the trial court's judgment to that third party. And, second, self-executing provisions that execute at some uncertain date well into the future are not permitted because the trial court creating those provisions cannot know at the time of their creation what disposition at that future date would serve the best interests of the child; the passage of time (and thus, likelihood of changed circumstances) is just too great.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“and remand the case to the trial court to revisit the issue and provide a new order”
1 later decision 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.