Yates v. Yates’s Empirical Analysis
1988
Citation profile
3
cited by 3 later decisions
1
states following
March 1995
most recently cited
3 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Murphy v. Carron · In Re Marriage of Scobee · McBride v. McBride · Wilmesherr v. Wilmesherr · In Re the Marriage of Thompson
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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court shall not modify a prior custody decree unless it has jurisdiction ... and it finds, upon the basis of facts that have arisen since the prior decree or that were unknown to the court at the time of the prior decree, that a change has occurred in the circumstances of the child or his custodian and that the modification is necessary to serve the best interests of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McClain v. Chaffee
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.