Alvarez v. Reiser’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
September 2013
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Matter of Marriage of Ames · Matter of Marriage of Banks · Cary v. Cary · Spinks v. Spinks
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[o]n the written agreement of the parties or on the court's own motion, the court may refer a suit affecting the parent-child relationship to mediation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Jaw-N.
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.