Hansen v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently October 2001
16 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 Hutchison v. Hutchison · Ashton v. Ashton · Smith v. Smith · Pusey v. Pusey · Turner v. Turner
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“To ensure that the trial court’s custody determination, discretionary as it is, ... is rationally based, it is essential that the court set forth in its findings of fact not only that it finds one parent to be the better person to care for the child, but also the basic facts which show why that ultimate conclusion is justified.... Proper findings of fact ensure that the ultimate custody award follows logically from, and is supported by, the evidence and controlling legal principles. Adequate findings are also necessary for this Court to perform its assigned review function.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jensen v. Jensen“Where a trial court may exercise broad discretion, we presume the correctness of the court's decision absent 'manifest injustice or inequity that indicates a clear abuse of ... discretion.”
1 later decision 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.