Feder v. Evans-Feder’s Empirical Analysis
63 F.3d 217 · 1995
Citation profile
75 federal appellate · 23 district · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 218 later decisions — most recently December 2024 · most notably Friedrich v. Friedrich (1996), Mozes v. Mozes (2001)
75 federal appellate · 23 district · 22 state decisions — followed in 10 states
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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 11601 (International Child Abduction Remedies Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 11603 · 42 U.S.C. § 11607
Relies on Pullman-Standard v. Swint · Toliver v. County of Sullivan · Universal Minerals, Inc. v. C. A. Hughes & Co. · Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc. · Forsyth County v. Nationalist Movement
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 218 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] child's habitual residence is the place where he or she has been physically present for an amount of time sufficient for acclimatization and which has a `degree of settled purpose' from the child's perspective.”
25 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Delvoye v. Lee · Robert v. Tesson“a. it is in breach of rights of custody attributed to a person, an institution or any other body, either jointly or alone, under the law of the State in which the child was habitually resident immediately before the removal or retention; and b. at the time of removal or retention those rights were actually exercised, either jointly or alone, or would have been so exercised but for the removal or retention.”
18 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Croll v. Croll · Delvoye v. Lee“a sufficient degree of continuity to be properly described as settled.”
13 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Delvoye v. Lee · Watts v. Watts
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.