Carter v. Brodrick’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently March 2024 · most notably Doe v. Doe (1998), V.C. v. M.J.B. (2000)
34 state decisions — followed in 13 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
Relies on 250 Pa. Super. 168 - Spells v. Spells · 108 Cal. App. 3d 480 - Perry v. Superior Court · Collins v. Gilbreath · Gribble v. Gribble · Simpson v. Simpson
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“one who, on a day-to-day basis, through interaction, companionship, interplay, and mutuality, fulfills the child's psychological need for an adult. This adult becomes an essential focus of the child's life, for he is not only the source of the fulfillment of the child's physical needs, but also the source of his emotional and psychological needs.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. In Re ELMC · V.C. v. M.J.B.“those relationships that affect the child which are based upon psychological rather than biological parentage may be important enough to protect through custody and visitation, to ensure that the child's best interests are being served.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is also clear that the court would have jurisdiction to award custody of a stepchild to the stepparent if the court found that custody with the natural parent would be clearly detrimental to the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Buness v. Gillen · Bj v. Jd
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.