Dantzler v. Dantzler’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently September 2013
12 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 26 Tenn. App. 641 - Hicks v. Hicks · Riddick v. Riddick · Long v. Long · Smith v. Haase
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In child custody matters the paramount concern of the Court is the welfare of the children and the rights of the parties will yield to that concern. Riddick vs. Riddick (1973 Tenn.App.W.S.) 497 S.W.2d 740 , cert. denied. We hold that there is no hard and fast rule as to what constitutes changed circumstance. The ultimate goal of the Court is to find in the best interest of the children and “changed circumstances” is something that may or may not be found in that search. We believe T.C.A. § 36-828 adequately sets forth the authority of the Trial Court over its custodial orders. The statute provides that such orders are “subject to such changes or modifications as the exigencies of the case may require.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dodd v. Dodd
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.