Maxwell v. Maxwell’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2021
8 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 Long v. Long · C.R.B. v. C.C. · Nichols v. Mandelin · Lee v. Cox · Morino v. Swayman
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] custody modification is valid if (1) the non-custodial parent establishes that a change in circumstances has occurred; and (2) the modification is in the best interests of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[A] trial court is not required to grant a hearing ... if the allegations of changed 'circumstances are convincingly refuted by competent evidence.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The moving parent bears the burden of making a prima facie showing of a substantial change of circumstance as a threshold matter.”
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.