Walker v. Walker’s Empirical Analysis
1998
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently September 2022
17 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. · Lashbrook v. Lashbrook · Wright v. Black · Howlett v. Howlett · Hernandez v. Freeman
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“had opposed the motion, she was not obligated to present any further opposition to the court in order to earn a right to an evidentiary hearing.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dd v. Lah · Laura B. v. Wade B.“A hearing is required in order to give the parties an opportunity to present the quantum of evidence needed [for the court] to make an informed and principled determination.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Price v. Eastham“[T]he superior court erred when it modified the custody and support decree without first conducting an evidentiary hearing.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Laura B. v. Wade B.
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.