Joliff v. Joliff’s Empirical Analysis
1992
Citation profile
11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently April 2025
11 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 International Shoe Co. v. Washington · Shaffer v. Heitner · Kulko v. Superior Court of California in and for City and County of San Francisco · Mueller v. Allen · 110 Cal. App. 3d 884 - In Re Marriage of Hopson
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"... This [due diligence] is not the decisive factor in affirming the trial court's decision in this case because while it is certainly true that courts 'view with disfavor motions for new trial based on newly-discovered evidence ...' and that 'such motions should be examined with caution ..., we likewise view with equal disfavor custody decrees not based on the best interest of the child...." [Footnotes omitted. Emphasis in original.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Even if it were true that a divorce action would constitute a 'significant connection' as between the child, a contestant and the state, 43 O.S. Supp.1990 §§ 505 (2) [now § 551-201(A)(2)] further holds that there be available in this state substantial evidence concerning the child's present or future care, protection, training and personal relationships. . . . In that the child had never been in Oklahoma prior to the trial court's custody decision, the information required by the statute was not available. Rather, all the information pertaining to the son's present and future care, protection, training and personal relationships was in Idaho. Thus, Oklahoma had no grounds for assuming jurisdiction.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The fact ... that no proceeding had been initiated in [the child's 'home state'] does not in itself accord Oklahoma the right to assume jurisdiction.”
1 later decision 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.