Fink v. Fink’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2018
20 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 Copperweld Corp. v. Independence Tube Corp. · Elder v. Jones · Bereman v. Bereman · Burt v. Burt · Knadler v. Adams
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not overturn the decision of the trial court unless we are persuaded of an abuse of discretion or the presence of a violation of some legal principle.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * The status of such a preference, particularly if it is invoked as a principle of law, is increasingly doubtful. Annotation 70 A.L.R.3d 262 (1976), and the cases cited therein. Our legislature has articulated a contrary policy in § 20-2-113, W.S. 1977, in which it is stated in part: "`* * * The court shall consider the relative competency of both parents and no award of custody shall be made solely on the basis of gender of the parent. * *'"”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Fanning v. Fanning“A simple statement that the party disagrees with the ruling of the district court and that the ruling is erroneous because it constitutes an abuse of the discretion vested in the district court does not amount to cogent argument.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Munoz v. Munoz
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.