90 Wash. 2d 626 - Schuster v. Schuster’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently March 2020 · most notably 110 Wash. 2d 793 - In Re the Personal Restraint of King (1988), Harmon v. DEPT. OF SOCIAL & HEALTH SERV. (1998)
59 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 66 Wash. 2d 503 - Lambert v. Lambert · 129 N.J. Super. 486 - In Re Js & C. · 60 Wash. 2d 151 - Long v. Odell · 45 Cal. App. 3d 39 - Chaffin v. Frye · 88 Wash. 2d 286 - Gaylord v. Tacoma School District No. 10
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“facts that have arisen since the prior decree or plan or that were unknown to the court at the time of the prior decree or plan, ... a substantial change has occurred in the circumstances of the child or the nonmoving party and ... the modification is in the best interest of the child and is necessary to serve the best interests of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“Constitutional Protection for Personal Lifestyles,”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Mjp v. Jgp
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.