Baker v. Baker’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
2
states following
January 2018
most recently cited
3 federal appellate · 5 state decisions
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.
“guidance, discipline, the necessities of life, and parental comfort.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Pierron v. Pierron“simply by determining the child's best interests”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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