82 Ark. App. 133 - Mason v. Mason’s Empirical Analysis
2003
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently April 2021
22 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 Hamilton v. Barrett · Jones v. Jones · Campbell v. Campbell · Lloyd v. Butts · 65 Ark. App. 110 - Hollinger v. Hollinger
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A judicial award of custody should not be modified unless it is shown that there are changed conditions that demonstrate that a modification of the decree is in the best interest of the child, or when there is a showing of facts affecting the best interest of the child that were either not presented to the chancellor at the time of the original custody order or were not known by the chancellor at the time the original custody order was entered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“when there is a showing of facts affecting the best interests of the children that were either not presented to the chancellor or were not known by the chancellor at the time the original custody order was entered.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Harrison v. Harrison
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.