Garding v. Garding’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently October 2017
20 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 S.N.E. v. R.L.B. · Gratrix v. Gratrix · Nichols v. Nichols · Poesy v. Bunney · King v. King
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(a) An award of custody of a child or visitation with the child may be modified if the court determines that a change in circumstances requires the modification of the award and the modification is in the best interests of the child. If a parent opposes the modification of the award ... and the modification is granted, the court shall enter on the record its reason for the modification.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ah v. Wp · Lee v. Cox“`mere improvement in the position of one of the parties is not sufficient to justify a change in custody.'”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Nichols v. Mandelin · Crb v. Cc“expressly found 'that it is in the best interests of a child to encourage parents to implement their own child care agreements outside of the court setting.’ ”) (quoting Ch. 88, § 1(b) SLA 1982). Our decision in this case that Susan should not be able to revoke her agreement to a change in the visitation schedule without entering mediation is based on the unique language of the custody agreement she and Samuel signed. 5 . In his motion, Samuel wrote:”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gaston v. Gaston
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.