Roberts v. Vilos’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2016
12 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 In Re Marriage of Kramer · Mentock v. Mentock · Stirrett v. Stirrett · City of Rock Springs v. Police Protection Ass'n · Doenz v. Garber
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In addition, the preference which has a stated basis and is expressed in a plain manner should be accorded greater weight than one whose basis cannot be described.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Love · Dahlke v. Dahlke“the preference of a child of sufficient age and maturity is a factor to be considered by a court in ascertaining what is in the child's best interests.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Love · Dahlke v. Dahlke“[T]he age of the child; the reason for the preference; the relative fitness of the preferred and non-preferred parent; the hostility, if any, of the child to the non-preferred parent; the preference of other siblings; and whether the child's preference has been tainted or influenced by one parent against the other.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Love · Dahlke v. Dahlke
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.