Serna v. Salazar’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2005
18 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on State Ex Rel. Valles v. Brown · Tufares v. Wright · 89 Cal. App. 3d 363 - In Re Marriage of Steiner · Belosky v. Belosky · Olsen v. Olsen
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“it is in the best interest of the child that a district court of New Mexico assume jurisdiction because: (a) the child and his parents, or the child and at least one contestant, have a significant connection with New Mexico; and (b) there is available in New Mexico substantial evidence concerning the child’s present or future care, protection, training and personal relationships----”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Campbell v. Alpers
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.