Elbert v. Elbert’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently May 2015
22 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 Thomas v. Review Board of the Indiana Employment Security Division · California v. Southland Royalty Co. · Bayh v. Sonnenburg · Kahn v. Cundiff · Logal v. Cruse
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... it is taken primarily for the purpose of harassment, if the attorney is unable to make a good faith and rational argument on the merits of the action, or if the lawyer is unable to support the action taken by a good faith and rational argument for an extension, modification, or reversal of existing law.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“"changed cireumstances so substantial and continuing as to make the existing custody order unreasonable. In making its determination, the court shall not hear evidence on matters occurring prior to the last custody proceeding between the parties unless such matters relate to a change of circumstances."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Winderlich v. MacE · Ward v. Ward“[a] custodial parent has no right to enter into an agreement or to contract away the right of a child to support from a parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Dunson v. Dunson
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.