Ready v. Ready’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently January 2023
14 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 Martinez v. State · Love v. Love · Gurney v. Gurney · Lopez v. Lopez · Leitner v. Lonabaugh
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.
“In determining whether there has been an abuse of discretion, the ultimate issue is whether or not the court could reasonably conclude as it did.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The party seeking modification of the child custody provisions of a court decree has the burden of showing that a change in cireumstances affecting the child's welfare has occurred after the entry of the initial decree, that the change warrants modification of the decree and that the modification will be in the best interests of the children. In order to resolve the issue of whether there was a showing of material and substantial change in cireumstances, we examine the record to determine whether the trial court could reasonably conclude from the evidence that there was such a change.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Drake v. McCulloh
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.