Evans v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently May 2020 · most notably Borchgrevink v. Borchgrevink (1997), Barrett v. Alguire (2001)
40 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 Gratrix v. Gratrix · Parker v. Northern Mixing Co. · Zimin v. Zimin · Craig v. McBride · Sheridan v. Sheridan
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) the physical, emotional, mental, religious, and social needs of the child; (2) the capability and desire of each parent to meet these needs...”
7 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Mengisteab v. Oates · West v. West“A finding of fact is clearly erroneous only when a review of the entire record leaves us with a definite and firm conviction that the trial court has made a mistake.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“'We have never adopted a rule giving custodial preference to the primary care giver.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Ijd v. Drd · Elliott v. Settje
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.