Ex Parte Owens’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
February 1993
most recently cited
2 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Curtis v. Gibbs · State v. Quintana Petroleum Co. · Southland Life Insurance v. Vela · Trader v. Dear · Ex Parte Mullins
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Any action or suit commenced after January 1, 1974, that has as its subject the modification of an order, judgment, or decree entered prior to January 1, 1974, but which under this Act would be a suit affecting the parent-child relationship, is governed by the provisions of this Act, and shall be treated as the commencement of a suit affecting the parent-child relationship in which no court has continuing exclusive jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sawa v. Williams
How this case has been treated — in progress
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