Duffus v. Duffus’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently August 2019
13 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 S.N.E. v. R.L.B. · Long v. Long · Rooney v. Rooney · Bird v. Starkey · Brosnan v. Brosnan
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hile trial courts are encouraged to state all findings in their written orders, they are not required to do so as long as the basis for their decisions is clear from the record and thus susceptible to review”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Boiko v. Kapolchok · Park v. Park“if the child is of sufficient age and capacity to form a preference.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“An award of child custody or visitation may be modified if the court determines that: (1) a change in circumstances requires the modification of the award and (2) the modification is in the best interests of the child. ... Such a change exists as a matter of law when a custodial parent moves out of state. This rule includes custodial parents who have joint custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Parks v. Parks
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.