Meredith v. Meredith’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently February 2017 · most notably Feder v. Evans-Feder (1995), Mozes v. Mozes (2001)
4 federal appellate · 8 district · 7 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 42 U.S.C. § 11601 (International Child Abduction Remedies Act)
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) it is in breach of rights of custody attributed to a person ... either jointly or alone ... under the law of the state in which the child was habitually resident immediately prior to the removal; and (b) at the time of removal ... those rights were actually exercised, either jointly or alone....”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[t]o equate the temporary removal and subsequent sequestration of the minor child to legal status of "habitual residence" in another country would be to reward [the mother] for her ability to conceal the child from the [father], her lawful, custodial parent. [ Id. at 1435 .]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“`[h]abitual residence' is an undefined term in the Convention. It is apparent that it must be determined by the facts and circumstances presented in each particular case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.