Lashbrook v. Lashbrook’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently April 2019 · most notably Price v. Eastham (2003), Williams v. Barbee (2010)
33 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 Aguchak v. Montgomery Ward Co., Inc. · Long v. Long · A.H. v. W.P. · Wright v. Black · Cushing v. Painter
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]t is essential to contested custody proceedings that the parties be afforded a hearing which grants them the opportunity to present the quantum of evidence needed to make an informed and principled determination.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“is designed to provide emergency relief from domestic violence on a short-term basis, presumably until more permanent relief can be sought and fashioned,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Jmr v. Str · J.M.R. v. S.T.R.“[t]he adequacy of the notice and hearing afforded a litigant in child custody proceedings involves due process considerations,”
3 later decisions 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.