Williams v. Knott’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently July 2011
2 federal appellate · 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Santosky v. Kramer · Shaffer v. Heitner · Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco · Trammel v. United States
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“We do not address the validity of Oklahoma’s continuing jurisdiction under either subsection of the PKPA, because actions to terminate parental rights are not child custody eases. Richardson v. Green, 677 S.W.2d 497 (Tex.1984) ... [In Richardson ] the Court’s opinion makes it clear that there is a difference between custody suits and termination actions. Id. at 500 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. White v. Blake“permanent and temporary orders, and initial orders and modifications.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. J.M.W. v. T.I.Z.
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.