Martin v. Martin’s Empirical Analysis
1990
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently November 2017
19 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 Goss v. Goss · Feaster v. Feaster · Ayling v. Ayling · Fanning v. Fanning · Hall v. Hall
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[the test for child custody is the best interests of the children, and such a decision cannot be made without the district court having before it all facts necessary to make such a determination”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Resor v. Resor · Hanson v. Belveal“Such speculation is not a substitute for complete analysis of all existing circumstances when and if a change in [a]... child custody arrangement becomes necessary.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Knutsen v. CEGALIS
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.