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Avendano v. Balza’s Empirical Analysis

2021

Citation profile

3
cited by 3 later decisions
June 2025
most recently cited

Relationships

Applies 22 U.S.C. § 9001 · 22 U.S.C. § 9003

Relies on Abbott v. Abbott · United States v. Cintrón-Echautegui · John Walsh Jacqueline Walsh and Martha Miller Intervenor John Walsh Jacqueline Walsh and Martha Miller Intervenor · United States v. Neal · Tsai-Yi Yang v. Fu-Chiang Tsui

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 3 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. “The Hague Convention applies only to children under the age of sixteen. However, it does not set an age at which a child is considered to be sufficiently mature; rather, the determination is to be made on a case-by-case basis.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  2. “whether a custody decision should be made in the United States or in the country of the child's habitual residence.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
  3. “petition a federal or state court to return an abducted child to the child's country of habitual residence,”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage

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.