Riche v. Riche’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently November 2016 · most notably State v. Kotis (1999), Burt v. Burt (1990)
30 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 State v. Walker · Scharf v. BMG Corp. · Matter of Estate of Bartell · Hutchison v. Hutchison · Maughan v. Maughan
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When, in any divorce proceeding or upon a request for modification of a divorce decree, an allegation of child abuse or child sexual abuse is made, implicating either party, the court shall order that an investigation be conducted by [DFS]. A final award of custody may not be rendered until a report on that investigation is received by the court. That investigation shall be conducted by [DFS] within 30 days of the court’s notice and request of an investigation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Linam v. King“[w]e give great deference to the trial court's findings of fact and do not overturn them unless they are clearly erroneous.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roberts v. Roberts“take judicial notice of the records and prior proceedings in the same case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.