Sutter v. Hendricks’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
August 1997
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Taylor v. Meek · Texas Employers' Insurance v. Mallard · Great American Indemnity Co. v. Sams · Moulton v. Alamo Ambulance Service, Inc. · Yellow Cab & Baggage Co. v. Green
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) designates a managing conservator if the circumstances of the child or parent have so materially and substantially changed since the entry of the order of decree to be modified that the retention of the present managing conservator would be injurious to the welfare of the child and that the appointment of the new conservator would be a positive improvement for the child; ...”
2 later decisions 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.