Dorris v. Dorris’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
8
cited by 8 later decisions
1
states following
May 1993
most recently cited
8 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Green v. Green · Smead v. Allen · In re Marriage of Michalski · State ex rel. McKenzie v. La Driere
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 8 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 its custodian and that the modification is necessary to serve the best interest of the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“to return to this Court for a further decision as to the custody of said child”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lacher v. Lacher
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.