Sears v. Sears’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
2
states following
January 1990
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on 23 Del. Ch. 114 - Heinsohn v. Chandler · Shaw v. Shaw · K. H. v. W. H. · Millard v. Taylor
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a clear distinction between a case where a parent denies visitation or removes the child to a known far place from a case where the parent and child simply disappear”
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.