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697 F.3d 41 · 2012

Citation profile

28
cited by 28 later decisions
2
cited 2 times by the Supreme Court
1
states following
June 2025
most recently cited

7 federal appellate · 2 district · 2 state decisions

Relationships

Applies 42 U.S.C. § 11603

Relies on Skidmore v. Swift & Co. · Smith v. United States · Sumitomo Shoji America, Inc. v. Avagliano · Medellin v. Texas · Holloway 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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “(1) the age of the child; (2) the stability of the child’s residence in the new environment; (3) whether the child attends school or day care consistently; (4) whether the child attends church [or participates in other community or extracurricular school activities] regularly; (5) the respondent’s employment and financial stability; (6) whether the child has friends and relatives in the new area; and (7) the immigration status of the child and the respondent.”
    10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  2. “where the proceedings have been commenced after the expiration of the period of one year [from the date of the wrongful removal], shall also order the return of the child, unless it is demonstrated that the child is now settled in its new environment.”
    3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
  3. “'settled' should be viewed to mean that the child has significant emotional and physical connections demonstrating security, stability, and permanence in its new environment.”
    2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority

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.