437 So. 2d 122 - Mitchell v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
1 district · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently September 2005 · most notably 99 Md. App. 521 - Malik v. Malik (1994), State Ex Rel. Department of Human Services v. Avinger (1986)
1 district · 28 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. § 1738
Relies on 416 So. 2d 1034 - Flannery v. Stephenson · Pitts v. Sutter · 34 Or. App. 393 - State Ex Rel. Butler v. Morgan · 396 So. 2d 1069 - Wyatt v. Falhsing · 408 So. 2d 114 - Wilson v. Wilson
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(f) A court of a State may modify a determination of the custody of the same child made by a court of another State, if —”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"It (a sister state’s judgment) can be enforced by habeas corpus, contempt, injunction, a civil action, a petition or motion, or any other method available under the law of this state for the enforcement of a custody judgment rendered by a court of this state."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marquiss v. Marquiss“[t]he state in which the child, immediately preceding the time involved, lived with his parents, a parent, or a person acting as parent for at least six consecutive months. . . .”
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.