Wasson v. Wasson’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently September 2024 · most notably Lee v. Lee (1984), Collins on Behalf of Collins v. Tabet (1991)
37 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 Huey v. Lente · 6 Ariz. App. 68 - Anguis v. Superior Court · Huey v. Lente · Roelfs v. Sam P. Wallingford, Inc. · Haden v. Eaves
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“in every proceeding in which minor children are involved, a court's primary obligation is to further the best interests of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“a minor in court is represented not only by the guardian ad litem, but by the court itself.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.