Gohn v. Gohn’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently April 2006
7 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 Murphy v. Carron
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[a]lthough [section] 452.480 requires that parties in child custody proceedings furnish certain information in their pleadings or by affidavit, that requirement is not jurisdictional. . . . . Section 452.450 sets forth certain jurisdictional requirements. It contains no reference to section 452.480. Expressio unius est exclusio alterius. Jurisdiction attaches when the requirements of [section] 452.450 are met, not [section] 452.480."”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bell v. Bell · Higgins v. Karger““1. A court of this state which is competent to decide child custody matters has jurisdiction to make a child custody determination by ... modification decree if: (1) This state: (a) Is the home state of the child at the time of commencement of the proceeding; or [[Image here]]”
2 later decisions 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.