Beck v. Beck’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 167 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 172 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Matter of Baby M. (1988), State v. Zola (1988)
3 federal appellate · 167 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 State v. Johnson · Mimkon v. Ford · Fantony v. Fantony · Sorentino v. Family & Children's Soc. of Elizabeth · 96 N.J. Super. 415 - In Re Adoption of Children N.
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 172 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`[p]roperly analyzed, joint custody is comprised of two elements-legal custody and physical custody[.]'”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“Because we are persuaded that joint custody is likely to foster the best interests of the child in the proper case, we endorse its use as an alternative to sole custody in matrimonial actions. We recognize, however, that such an arrangement will prove acceptable in only a limited class of cases.... [D]espite our belief that joint custody will be the preferred disposition in some matrimonial actions, we decline to establish a presumption in its favor or in favor of any particular custody determination. [ Id. at 488 , 432 A. 2d 63 (footnote omitted).]”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This feature does not translate into a requirement that the parents have an amicable relationship. Although such a positive relationship is preferable, a successful joint custody arrangement requires only that the parents be able to isolate their personal conflicts from their roles as parents and that the children be spared whatever resentments and rancor the parents may harbor.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.