Fast v. Fast’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently May 2015
8 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 Rice v. Rice · Price v. Price · Hornbeck v. Hornbeck
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]o force joint custody on an unwilling parent should give a trial court pause.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“If either or both parents have requested joint custody, said parents shall file with the court their plans for the exercise of joint care, custody, and control of their child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BILYEU v. BILYEU
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.