Olson v. Olson’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2003 · most notably Stout v. Stout (1997), Healy v. Healy (1986)
26 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 Auge v. Auge · Lapp v. Lapp · Gardebring v. Rizzo · Miller v. Miller · Burich v. Burich
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 26 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'The statutory recognition of visitation rights between a child and the noncustodial parent is consistent with placing the burden upon the custodial parent to show that moving the child to another state is in the child's best interest. We conclude that there is no presumption that a custodial parent's decision to change the child's residence to another state is in the child's best interests. We are unpersuaded that it would be consistent with our statutes or otherwise appropriate to adopt such a presumption, and we refuse to do so.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dennis v. Dennis · McRae v. Carbno“shall be granted unless the party opposing the motion establishes by a preponderance of the evidence that the move is not in the best interests of the child.”
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.