Boyd v. Boyd’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently May 2006
5 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on Smith v. Smith · 383 So. 2d 1134 - Hegler v. Hegler · Kane v. Kane · 52 Tenn. App. 459 - Mayhew v. Mayhew · 53 Tenn. App. 403 - Bevins v. Bevins
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A child custody determination made by a court of a State is consistent with the provisions of this section only if— (1) such court has jurisdiction under the law of such State; and (2) one of the following conditions is met: (A) such State (i) is the home State of the child on the date of the commencement of the proceeding....”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bolger v. Bolger
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.