Bashus v. Bashus’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 2006
13 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 In Re Estate of Elmer · Nastrom v. Nastrom · Lapp v. Lapp · Bender v. Bender · Hegge v. Hegge
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““1. The love, affection, and other emotional ties existing between the parents and child. “2. The capacity and disposition of the parents to give the child love, affection, and guidance and to continue the education of the child. “3. The disposition of the parents to provide the child with food, clothing, medical care, or other remedial care recognized and permitted under the laws of this state in lieu of medical care, and other material needs. “4. The length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory environment and the desirability of maintaining continuity. “5. The permanence, as a family unit, of the existing or proposed custodial home. “6. The moral fitness of the parents. “7. The mental and physical health of the parents. “8. The home, school, and community record of the child. “9. The reasonable preference of the child, if the court deems the child to be of sufficient intelligence, understanding, and experience to express a preference. “10. Any other factors considered by the court to be relevant to a particular child custody dispute.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Thomas v. Thomas““We determined that the grandparents’ involvement was an appropriate factor in support of the trial court’s decision to award Trina’s parents joint custody. We concluded that children ‘need interaction and interrelationship with their parents, siblings, and other persons who may significantly affect the child’s best interests.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berg v. Berg“In any proceeding under this chapter, the court, at any stage of the proceedings after final judgment, may make orders about what security is to be given for the care, custody, and support of the unmarried minor children of the marriage as from the circumstances of the parties and the nature of the case is equitable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dinius v. Dinius
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.