Barstad v. Barstad’s Empirical Analysis
1993
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably Fahlsing v. Teters (1996), Van Dyke v. Van Dyke (1995)
30 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 Blotske v. Leidholm · Gravning v. Gravning · Gould v. Miller · Mertz v. Mertz · Bergstrom v. Bergstrom
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Blotske [ v. Leidholm, ] [ 487 N.W.2d 607 (N.D.1992) ] and Delzer [ v. Winn, ] [ 491 N.W.2d 741 (N.D.1992)] capsulize the proposition that in a change of custody proceeding, the child's stability with the custodial [person] is a primary consideration, and the statutory factors [for custody] must be weighed with that primacy in mind. The Blotske-Delzer duo also cautions that a trial court should change custody only if a change in custody is necessary or required for the best interests of the child.... The maintenance of custodial stability and continuity "is a very compelling consideration." Delzer, supra at 744 . .... [These are] superior benefits to [the child's] best interests that we have recognized to inhere in the finality of litigation and the stability of the ongoing custodial relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Norman v. Leingang“[a] twelve-year-old's desire to remain involved in hometown sports activities is a `goal[ ] and ambition[ ],' that cannot trump the superior benefits to his best interests that we have recognized to inhere in the finality of litigation and the stability, of the ongoing custodial relationship.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frueh v. Frueh“`may be motivated by goals and ambitions which undermine the significance of that preference . . .'”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Frueh v. Frueh
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.