Moore v. Moore’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 7 later decisions — most recently September 2018
7 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 Acton v. Deliran · Maughan v. Maughan · Burt v. Burt · Bell v. Bell · Whitehouse v. Whitehouse
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“On a petition for a modification of a divorcee decree, the threshold requirement for relief is a showing of a substantial change of cireumstances occurring since the entry of the decree and not contemplated in the decree itself.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“This court will not overturn a trial court's modification of a divorce decree absent a clear abuse of discretion or manifest injustice.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Boyce v. Goble
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.