Eschbach v. Eschbach’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2016
10 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.
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[I]t is often in the child’s best interests to continue to live with his siblings.... “Close familial relationships are much to be encouraged.” (Matter of Ebert v. Ebert, supra, [38 N.Y.2d 700] at p. 704, 382 N.Y.S.2d 472 , 346 N.E.2d 240 [(1976)].) “Young brothers and sisters need each other’s strengths and association in their everyday and often common experiences, and to separate them, unnecessarily, is likely to be traumatic and harmful.” (Obey v. Degling, supra, [ 37 N.Y.2d 768 ] at p. 771, 375 N.Y.S.2d 91 , 337 N.E.2d 601 [(1975)]; Matter of Gunderud v. Gunderud, 75 A.D.2d 691 , 427 N.Y.S.2d 92 ; Bistany v. Bistany, [ 66 A.D.2d 1026 , 411 N.Y.S.2d 728 (1978)] supra.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““Finally, this court has long recognized that it is often in the child’s best interests to continue to live with his siblings. While this, too, is not an absolute, the stability and companionship to be gained from keeping the children together is an important factor for the court to consider. ‘Close familial relationships are much to be encouraged.’ ... ‘Young brothers and sisters need each other’s strengths and association in their everyday and often common experiences, and to separate them, unnecessarily, is likely to be traumatic and harmful.’ ” (Citations omitted).”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“considering questions of child custody must make every effort to determine `what is for the best interest of the child, and what will best promote its welfare and happiness.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Akamine
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.