Benton v. Benton’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
July 1993
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Garbee v. Tyree · Dej v. Ghb · In Re Marriage of Cook · Gianformaggio v. Gianformaggio · Noland v. Noland
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.
“... the court shall not modify a prior custody decree unless ... it finds, upon the basis of facts that have arisen since the prior decree or that were unknown to the court at the time of the prior decree, that a change has occurred in the circumstances of the child or his custodian and that the modification is necessary to serve the best interests of the child_”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bertz v. Bertz
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.