Sorenson v. Sorenson’s Empirical Analysis
559 F.3d 871 · 2009
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently December 2024
4 federal appellate · 1 district ·
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. § 1291
Relies on Feder v. Evans-Feder · Nunez-Escudero v. Tice-Menley · Silverman v. Silverman · Holder v. Holder · Koch v. Koch
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person may have only one habitual residence, and it should not be confused with domicile. [T]he court must focus on the child, not the parents, and examine past experience, not future intentions. Habitual residence may only be altered by a change in geography and passage of time. Federal courts are agreed that “habitual residence” must encompass some form of “settled purpose.” The settled purpose need not be to stay in a new location forever, but the family must have a “sufficient degree of continuity to be properly described as settled.” Additionally, the settled purpose must be from the child’s perspective, although parental intent is also taken into account.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mendoza v. Silva“Determinations of intent [in the context of a Hague Convention petition] ... involve questions of fact and the Court must defer to the district court’s findings unless they are clearly erroneous.”); Koch v. Koch, 450 F.3d 703 , 710 (7th Cir.2006) (”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Berezowsky v. Ojeda
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.