Becker v. Becker’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
38 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 38 later decisions — most recently April 2022 · most notably Maughan v. Maughan (1989), Davis v. Davis (1988)
38 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 Hogge v. Hogge · Jorgensen v. Jorgensen · Haslam v. Haslam
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 38 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“'[A]l party must show, in addition to the existence and extent of the change, that the change is significant in relation to the modification sought.'”
8 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kramer v. Kramer · Shioji v. Shioji“custody placements, once made, should be as stable as possible unless the factual basis for them has completely changed.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Kramer v. Kramer · Shioji v. Shioji“[A] specific change in cireumstances may justify reconsideration of one provision of a divorcee decree while not justifying reconsideration of another provision.”
2 later decisions 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.