Ashburn v. Ashburn’s Empirical Analysis
1996
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2010
16 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 McCullough v. Archbold Ladder Co. · In Re the Marriage of Hudson · Williams v. Williams · Horlander v. Horlander · Ruppen v. Ruppen
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the child is physically present in this state and the child has been abandoned....”
6 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Alexander v. Foy · Moore v. Miller“and other unilateral removals of children”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. H.S. v. K.M.C. · In Re Kc“the state in which the child, immediately preceding the time involved, lived with his parents, a parent, or a person acting as parent, for at least six (6) consecutive months.... Periods of temporary absence of any of the named persons are counted as part of the six (6) month ... period.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Meyer v. Meyer
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.