Wanamaker v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2025
17 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 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on 32 Cal. 3d 689 - Kumar v. Superior Court · 84 Ill. 2d 212 - Siegel v. Siegel · 35 Wash. App. 822 - Hudson v. Hudson · 383 So. 2d 1134 - Hegler v. Hegler · 64 Md. App. 154 - Olson v. Olson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[Because] a court which does not have subject matter jurisdiction is without power to decide a case, this issue cannot be waived, and [it] can be raised at any point during the litigation.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[i]t is in the best interest of the child that a court of this state assume jurisdiction because (i) the child and his parents, or the child and at least one (1) contestant, have a significant con nection with this state and (ii) there is available in this state substantial evidence concerning the child’s present or future care, protection, training, and personal relationships.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Rogers v. Rogers“would run counter to the rationale we adopted in L.L.M., that a party who reasonably and in good faith believes his or her actions are justified by the best interests of the child should not be deterred from taking appropriate action by the possibility of an award of attorney's fees and costs.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kessler v. Kessler
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.