MacDougall v. Acres’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2019
15 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on Hisquierdo v. Hisquierdo · Litton Business Systems, Inc. v. Commissioner of Revenue · Redding v. Redding · 27 Mass. App. Ct. 351 - Umina v. Malbica · Delk v. Gonzalez
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(i) ... another state has declined to exercise jurisdiction on the ground that the commonwealth is the more appropriate forum to determine the custody of the child, and (ii) it is in the best interest of the child that a court of the commonwealth assume jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“the state in which the child immediately preceding the date of commencement of the custody proceeding resided with ... a parent, ... for at least 6 consecutive months.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“A Massachusetts court's exercise of jurisdiction over custody determinations must be based solely on”
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.