Marchant v. Marchant’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently March 2022
24 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
Applies 5 U.S.C. § 8341 · 5 U.S.C. § 8345
Relies on 177 N.J. Super. 471 - Kikkert v. Kikkert · Acton v. Deliran · Woodward v. Woodward · Rucker v. Dalton · Smith v. Smith
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“identity of the parent with whom the child has spent most of his or her time pending custody determination if that period has been lengthy.” Id. at 120 ; accord Marchant v. Mar-chant, 743 P.2d 199, 203 (Utah App.1987). In another case, the supreme court noted that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tucker v. Tucker“neither this court nor any other court can excuse or justify or approve intrafamily violence or spouse abuse”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Roberts
How this case has been treated — in progress
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