Hunter v. Hunter’s Empirical Analysis
2009
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently July 2020
13 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 Maclean v. Speed
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[c]ustody cases involving natural parents inherently implicate the parents' fundamental liberty interest in the care, custody, and management of their children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Dis · Sidman v. Sidman“the established custodial environment presumption in MCL 722.27 [1][c] must yield to the parental presumption in MCL 722.25 [1]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“to satisfy constitutional due process standards, the state must provide the parents with fundamentally fair procedures.”
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.