Brooke v. Willis’s Empirical Analysis
1995
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 3 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently November 2013
3 federal appellate · 3 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
Applies 42 U.S.C. § 11601 (International Child Abduction Remedies Act) · 42 U.S.C. § 11603
Relies on Friedrich v. Friedrich · Rydder v. Rydder · Meredith v. Meredith · 845 F. Supp. 916 - Currier v. Currier · 850 F. Supp. 78 - Wanninger v. Wanninger
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“happy and well taken care of during her stay,” and”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“the removal or the retention of a child is to be considered wrongful where: (a) it is in breach of rights of custody attributed to a person ... under the law of the State in which the child was habitually resident immediately before the removal or retention; and (b) at the time of removal or retention those rights were actually exercised ... or would have been so exercised but for the removal or retention.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“‘Place of habitual residence is determined more by a state of mind than by any specific period of time; technically, habitual residence can be established after only one day as long as there is some evidence that the child has become settled into the location in question.’ [Id., 907 F.Supp. at 61 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harsacky v. Harsacky
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.