Watt v. Watt’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably Johnson v. City of Cincinnati (2002), Hoover (Letourneau) v. Hoover (2000)
2 federal appellate · 28 state decisions — followed in 12 states
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 Shapiro v. Thompson · Shoup Voting Machine Corp. v. Datamedia Computer Service, Inc. · Paul v. Virginia · Zobel v. Williams · 79 Wash. 2d 12 - State Ex Rel. Carroll v. Junker
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘unless clear evidence ... establishes the detrimental effect .. . upon the children.'”
9 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Resor v. Resor · Hanson v. Belveal“strong presumption in favor of the right of a custodial parent to relocate with her children”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage“factors that are derivative of the relocation”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
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.