Zappitello v. Moses’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
5 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Clark v. Clark · 294 Pa. Super. 285 - Warman v. Warman · 105 Ill. App. 3d 355 - In Re Marriage of Levy · South Dakota Board of Regents v. Heege · 84 Cal. App. 3d 847 - Neal v. Superior Court
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“court decision[s] and court orders and instructions providing for the custody of a child, including visitation rights; it does not include a decision relating to child support or any other monetary obligation of any person[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of McS“[t]he UCCJA is designed to assure the litigation considering the custody of a child takes place ordinarily in the state with which the child and his family have the closest connection”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Matter of McS
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.