Duncan v. Seay’s Empirical Analysis
1976
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently August 2016
8 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 Sherrer v. Sherrer · Johnson v. Muelberger · Coe v. Coe · Pennsylvania Co v. O'Rourke · Clampitt v. Johnson
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““As a matter of comity, if a court of a sister state enters a valid and binding order or judgment concerning the custody of a child, and the child is brought into this state in derogation of such order or judgment, the courts of this state should not assume or exercise jurisdiction to re-litigate the question of custody, unless the welfare of the child is in jeopardy or some other unusual circumstance exists.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“could have litigated [service and personal jurisdiction] questions there, but he did not choose to do so ... [h]e should not be rewarded for fleeing the jurisdiction instead of remaining and contesting the issues in a manner provided by law”
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.