Cosner v. Ridinger’s Empirical Analysis
1994
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2023
2 federal appellate · 1 district · 9 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 Swanson v. Bixler · Wilder v. Cody Country Chamber of Commerce · Leithead v. American Colloid Co. · Pickle v. Page · McBride v. Magnuson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Wyoming has adopted as its public poli-ey a paramount concern for the best interests of the child in connection with child support, custody, and visitation. That policy is articulated in WYO. STAT. § 20-2-113 (Cum.Supp. 1993) 2 , which states in pertinent part: (a) In granting a divorce or annulment of a marriage, the court may make such disposition of the children as appears most expedient and beneficial for the well-being of the children.... If the court finds that both parents have shown the ability to act in the best interest of the child, the court may order any arrangement that encourages parents to share in the rights and responsibilities of rearing their children.... The court which entered the decree has continuing subject matter and personal jurisdiction to enforce or revise the decree concerning the care, custody, visitation and maintenance of the children as the circumstances of the parents and the benefit of the children requires. . The court shall consider evidence of spouse abuse or child abuse as being contrary to the best interest of the child. (Emphasis added.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"For the good of our children, the law should seek to promote such harmony as is possible in families .... At a minimum, the law should not provide a means of escalating intrafamily warfare.... "It is clear that this tort would be used as a new weapon in such disputes.... The interest in compensation should not outweigh the effects of bitter accusations on ... children.... "Creating this tort would create a new wrong. It would place innocent children in the middle of a vigorous, probably vicious, lawsuit ...."”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoblyn v. Johnson“One who, with knowledge that the parent does not consent, abducts or otherwise compels or induces a minor child to leave a parent legally entitled to its custody or not to return to the parent after it has been left him, is subject to liability to the parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hoblyn v. Johnson
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.