Moody v. Moody’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently February 2021
15 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 · Becker v. Becker · Jorgensen v. Jorgensen · Shioji v. Shioji
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.
“the evidence supporting changed cireumstances is ... the same evidence that is used to establish the best interests of the child,”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The asserted change must, therefore, have some material relationship to and substantial effect on parenting ability or the functioning of the presently existing custodial relationship. In the absence of an indication that the change has or will have such effect, the materiality requirement is not met.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Elmer v. Elmer“recalled to give further testimony in the second phase of the hearing,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Doyle v. Doyle
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.