Vinzant v. Elam’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
7
cited by 7 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
7 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Petersen v. Mutual Life Insuarance Co. of New York · Ford v. Municipality of Anchorage · Matthews v. Matthews · Lashbrook v. Lashbrook · Keane v. Local Boundary Commission
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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“visitation rights is sufficient to establish the threshold burden of changed circumstances”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Graham R. v. Jane S.
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.