McQuade v. McQuade’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 35 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Borchgrevink v. Borchgrevink (1997), Vachon v. Pugliese (1996)
35 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 144 N.J. Super. 200 - D'Onofrio v. D'Onofrio · D'Onofrio v. D'Onofrio · Cox v. Cox · Gratrix v. Gratrix · Evans v. Evans
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 35 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory environment and the desirability of maintaining continuity.”
8 later decisions quote this exact passage“a court must consider the best interests of the children by applying the criteria in AS 25.24.150(c), and in doing so should consider whether there is a legitimate reason for the move.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Vachon v. Pugliese · Hayes v. Hayes“the record shows an abuse of discretion or if the controlling factual findings are clearly erroneous. Abuse of discretion is established if the trial court considered improper factors or failed to consider statutorily mandated factors, or improperly weighted certain factors in making its determination.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.