Schuermann v. Schuermann’s Empirical Analysis
1980
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently December 2018 · most notably Jaramillo v. Jaramillo (1991), Fitzsimmons v. Fitzsimmons (1986)
40 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 Boone v. Boone · Kerley v. Kerley · Merrill v. Merrill · Terry v. Terry · Matter of Briggs
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[f]requent changes of schools and home locations, differences in family structures and in parental personalities are difficult for children to adapt to even under the best of circumstances. Modifications in custody should not be granted too quickly. Once custody has been awarded to a parent, this Court has held that the best interests of the child ordinarily will not be served unless a substantial change has occurred in the circumstances of the custodial home or in the capacity of the custodial parent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is important for trial judges to be liberal in awarding attorney’s fees in cases * * * where economic disparity between the parties and costs involved in pursuing the action are so great that participation becomes economically oppressive to one party. To do otherwise would have a chilling effect upon the less affluent parties ability to present his or her case. * * *”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. Lopez · Luxton v. Luxton“It is argued that before the ‘best interests of the child’ test can be employed, the court must first find that the morality, character or integrity of the custodial parent has changed since the original award of custody. We reject that argument * * *. To rely upon any test which causes parents contesting custody to promulgate the negative qualities of each other can only bruise and further disrupt a young child’s family relations. [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Lopez v. Lopez
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.