Tufares v. Wright’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
2 district · 41 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently August 2006 · most notably Justis v. Justis (1998), State Ex Rel. Department of Human Services v. Avinger (1986)
2 district · 41 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
Applies 28 U.S.C. § 1738A
Relies on Bradley v. School Board of City of Richmond · United States v. Schooner Peggy · Dames & Moore v. Regan · PruneYard Shopping Center v. Robins · Perea v. Baca
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A court of a State may modify a determination of the custody of the same child made by a court of another State, if— (1) it has jurisdiction to make such a child custody determination; and (2) the court of the other State no longer has jurisdiction, or it has declined to exercise such jurisdiction to modify such determination.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Serna v. Salazar · Curtis v. Curtis“the state in which the child immediately preceding the time involved lived with his parents, a parent, or a person acting as parent, for at least six consecutive months... .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Crump v. Crump
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.