Gorham v. Gorham’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently August 2024 · most notably Daniel v. Daniel (2001), Varbel v. Varbel (2014)
24 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 Gibbons v. Gibbons · Carpenter v. Carpenter · Irwin v. Irwin · Duncan v. Duncan · Waller v. Waller
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.
“[t]he determinative factor ... must be the effect of the questioned behavior on the welfare of the child.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. SNYDER v. LEAGUE · BILYEU v. BILYEU“One who challenges the trial court's determination on custody, based on the best interests of the children, has the burden of demonstrating an abuse of discretion, and must put forth the evidence relied upon to establish the trial court's error and must affirmatively show how this evidence shows the trial court's decision to have been contrary to the children's best interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Marsh v. Marsh“... the best interest of the child are of paramount concern. And, where it does not appear that the trial court has abused its discretion in making a determination of those best interests, the award of custody will not be reversed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Acox v. Acox
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.