Pulliam v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
164 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 164 later decisions — most recently March 2019 · most notably Shipman v. Shipman (2003), Adams v. Tessener (2001)
164 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 State v. Smith · Thompson v. Wake County Board of Education · Williams v. Pilot Life Insurance Company · Blackley v. Blackley · Matter of Shue
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 164 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[C]ourts must consider and weigh all evidence of changed circumstances which affect or will affect the best interests of the child, both changed circumstances which will have salutary effects upon the child and those which will have adverse effects upon the child. In appropriate cases, either may support a modification of custody on the ground of a change in circumstances.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“'Substantial evidence is such relevant evidence as a reasonable mind might accept as adequate to support a conclusion.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“`substantial change of circumstances affecting the welfare of the child'”
6 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.