Yost v. Johnson’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
5
states following
May 2008
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Gulf Oil Corporation v. Gilbert · Charles C. McChord v. Cincinnati · Middleton v. Middleton · Fiduciary Trust Co. v. Fiduciary Trust Co. · Perrine v. Pennroad Corp.
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) This State (a) Is the home state of the child at the time of the commencement of the proceeding; or (b) Had been the child’s home state within 6 months before the commencement of the proceeding and the child is absent from this State because of his removal or retention by a person claiming his custody or for other reasons, and a parent or person acting as parent continues to live in this State(.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Albert v. Phillips
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.