Charles v. Stehlik’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 91 later decisions — most recently May 2025 · most notably T.B. v. L.R.M. (2001), Watkins v. Nelson (2000)
89 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 Ellerbe v. Hooks · Rowles v. Rowles
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 91 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in order to obtain shared physical custody with equal custodial time. Id. Finally, Appellant asserts that the trial court erred when it considered the previous informal custody arrangement between Appellant and R.L as dispositive evidence in determining whether R.L. met her burden of proof. Id. For the following reasons, Appellant is not entitled to relief. The parent has a prima facie right to custody,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. R.L. v. M.A.
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.