Janik v. Janik’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably In re Daniel C. (2001), 108 Conn. App. 813 - Watrous v. Watrous (2008)
43 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 Fussell v. Price · Williams v. United States · Ridgeway v. Ridgeway · Knock v. Knock · Schult v. Schult
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(Internal quotation marks omitted.) Kelly v. Kelly, 54 Conn. App. 50 , 55 , 732 A.2d 808 (1999). Among the various factors the court may consider when determining the best interest of the child are the parties' parenting skills . . . The court may also take into account the recommendations of the . . . child's guardian ad litem. See Schult v. Schult, supra, 779 (the guardian ad litem is the representative of the child's best interests').”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the court may at any time make or modify any proper order regarding . . . custody and visitation if it has jurisdiction . . . according to its best judgment upon the facts of the case and subject to such conditions and limitations as it deems equitable”
1 later decision 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.