Bennett v. Bennett’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
36 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 36 later decisions — most recently July 2022 · most notably Runyon v. Ass'n of Village Council Presidents (2004), Elton H. v. Naomi R. (2005)
36 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 Guin v. Ha · Vachon v. Pugliese · Farrell v. Farrell · Dodson v. Dodson · Turinsky v. Long
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 36 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'Legal custody' refers to the responsibility for making 'major decisions affecting the child's welfare' and is a status that may be held by a parent who does not have 'physical custody,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mendel-Gleason v. Harris · Dj v. Pc“[clhild support awards, by their very definition, are intended to benefit the child, not provide a windfall to a parent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Because no child support order existed, the trial court did not have to concern itself with the prohibition against retroactive modification of child support.”). . Adjusted income = 1042/.27=3859.26 x .20=771.85. .The ambiguity arises because the order, in reducing the 1998 arrearages because of summer visitation with Charmaine, refers to the arrangement concerning Nicholas in the present rather than the future tense —”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bailey v. Bailey
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.