Cushing v. Painter’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably D.M. v. State, Division of Family & Youth Services (2000), Schmitz v. Schmitz (2004)
25 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 Veazey v. Veazey · Milne v. Anderson · Craig v. McBride · Sanguinetti v. Sanguinetti
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“essential to contested custody proceedings that the parties be afforded a hearing which grants them the opportunity to present the quantum of evidence needed to make an informed and principled determination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. J.L.P. v. V.L.A. · Jlp v. Vla“[D]uring the pendency of the action, or at the final hearing or at any time thereafter during the minority of a child of the marriage,”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tmc v. Sac“Due Process. No person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.”
1 later decision 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.