Long v. Long’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently September 2022 · most notably Barrett v. Alguire (2001), Lacher v. Lacher (1999)
46 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 Livingston v. Texas · United States v. Haldeman · S.N.E. v. R.L.B. · Gratrix v. Gratrix · Amidon v. State
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 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“An award of custody of a child or visitation with the child may be modified if the court determines that a change in circumstances requires the modification of the award and the modification is in the best interests of the child.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage“if the child is of sufficient age and capacity to form a preference.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hat is important is that the circumstances of the children worsened as a result of their parents' actions”
2 later decisions 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.