Peterson v. Peterson’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently August 2006
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 16 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Wheeler v. District Court in & for City & Co. of Denver · Spaulding v. Spaulding · Calthorpe v. Abrahamson · Tuttle & Lee Associates v. Deltona Realty Trust
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“§ 11.51. (a) The general purposes of this subchap-ter are to: (1) avoid jurisdictional competition and conflict with courts of other states in matters of child custody that have in the past resulted in the shifting of children from state to state with harmful effects on their well-being; (5) deter abductions and other unilateral removals of children undertaken to obtain custody awards; (7) facilitate the enforcement of custody decrees of other states § 11.53 Jurisdiction (a) A court of this state that is competent to decide child custody matters has jurisdiction to make a child custody determination by initial decree or modification decree or order if: (1) this state: (A) is the home state of the child on the date of the commencement of the proceeding; or (B) had been the child’s home state within six months before the date of the commencement of the proceeding and the child is absent from this state because of his removal or retention by a person claiming his custody ... and a parent or person acting as parent continues to live in this state; § 11.52 Definitions (5) “Home state” means the state in which the child immediately preceding the time involved lived with his parents for at least six consecutive months. § 11.56 Simultaneous Proceeding in Other State (a) A court of this state may not exercise its jurisdiction under this subchapter if, at the time of filing the petition, a proceeding concerning the custody of the child was pending in a court of another state exercising”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“A court of a State shall not exercise jurisdiction in any proceeding for a custody determination commenced during the pendency of a proceeding in a court of another State where such court of that other State is exercising jurisdiction consistently with the provisions of this section to make a custody determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wambold v. Wambold“court holds a hearing and actively assumes jurisdiction of the matter”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matter of BBR
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.