Kramer v. Kramer’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently April 2022
22 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 · Fletcher v. Fletcher · 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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the asserted change must ... have some material relationship to and substantial effect on parenting ability or the functioning of the presentty existing custodial relationship”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Elmer v. Elmer · Fullmer v. Fullmer“First, [the changed-circumstances rule] prevents an unnecessary drain on judicial resources by repetitive litigation of the same issue when the result would not be altered. Second, and more important, the requirement is intended to ensure sufficient stability in children’s lives to enable them to develop relationships and a sense of familiarity with their surroundings that enhance their sense of security and self-identity, enabling them to find appropriate role models after which to pattern their lives and to develop the ability to give and receive love, a necessary requirement for achieving full potential as human beings.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Elmer v. Elmer · Doyle v. Doyle“In the usual case, the noncustodial parent’s change of circumstances is relevant only to a determination of whether, under the second prong of the Hogge-Becker test, the best interests of the child warrant a shift in custody, an issue reached only after a change of custodial circumstances has been found and the custody issue has been reopened.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Maughan v. Maughan · Hardy v. Hardy
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.