De Silva v. Pitts’s Empirical Analysis
481 F.3d 1279 · 2007
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 78 later decisions — most recently August 2020 · most notably Ogawa v. Ogawa (2009), Simcox v. Simcox (2007)
9 federal appellate · 5 district · 5 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
Relies on Anderson v. City of Bessemer City · Friedrich v. Friedrich · Feder v. Evans-Feder · Cummings v. Evans · Friedrich v. Friedrich
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 78 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“a) it is in breach of rights of custody attributed to a person ... either jointly or alone, under the law of the State in which the child was habitually resident immediately before the ... retention; and b) at the time of ... retention those rights were actually exercised, either jointly or alone, or would have been so exercised but for the removal or retention.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“have tried to discern the kernel of the issues [ ]he wishes to present on appeal.” de Silva v. Pitts, 481 F.3d 1279 , 1283 n. 4 (10th Cir.2007). However,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“not particularly swayed by lavish gifts and wealth in forming an opinion that the schools were better in Oklahoma,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.