Burch v. Burch’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently September 2017
14 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 Murphy v. Carron · Tbg v. Cag · In Re Marriage of Dusing · N. K. M. v. L. E. M. · Wallace v. Hankins
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A conditional judgment, that is one whose enforcement is dependent upon the performance of future acts by a litigant and which is to be annulled if default occurs, is void, [citation omitted]. In particular, provisions of dissolution decrees which order an automatic change of child custody upon the happening of some event in the future have consistently been held unenforceable. As stated in Haldeman v. Haldeman, 685 S.W.2d 570, 571 (M9.App.1984), such an order “improperly predetermines what would constitute a significant change in circumstances to justify a change in custody.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“enforcement is dependent upon the performance of future acts by a litigant and which is to be annulled if default occurs[.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“so long as [the mother] remains living with her parents.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jls v. Dks
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.