Bell v. Bell’s Empirical Analysis
1999
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently February 2018
17 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
Relies on Vehlewald v. Vehlewald · Guier v. Guier · Halupa v. Halupa · Marriage of Slay v. Slay · State Ex Rel. Laws v. Higgins
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“(1) This state: (a) Is the home state of the child at the time of commencement of the proceeding; or (b) Had been the child’s home state within six months before commencement of the proceeding and the child is absent from this state for any reason, and a parent or person acting as parent continues to live in this state; or (2) It is in the best interest of the child that a court of this state assume jurisdiction because: (a) The child and his parents, or the child and at least one litigant, have a significant connection with this state; and (b) There is available in this state substantial evidence concerning the child’s present or future care, protection, training, and personal relationships; or (3) The child is physically present in this state and: (a) The child has been abandoned; or (b) It is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because he has been subjected to or threatened with mistreatment or abuse, or is otherwise being neglected; or (4)It appears that no other state would have jurisdiction under prerequisites substantially in accordance with subdivision (1), (2), or (3), or another state has declined to exercise jurisdiction on the ground that this state is the more appropriate forum to determine the custody of the child, and it is in the best interest of the child that this court assume jurisdiction.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“The comments to the UCCJA make it clear that the bases of jurisdiction in section 452.450.1(1) through (4) are set out in descending preferential order, and that the first two bases for jurisdiction, home state and significant connection with the family ‘establish the two major bases for jurisdiction.’ ” Bell, 987 S.W.2d at 398 (quoting UCCJA § 3, comment, U.L.A. 144 (1988)). 8 .We note that while the dissolution court did make the comment at the default hearing that”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"[a]lthough [section] 452.480 requires that parties in child custody proceedings furnish certain information in their pleadings or by affidavit, that requirement is not jurisdictional. . . . . Section 452.450 sets forth certain jurisdictional requirements. It contains no reference to section 452.480. Expressio unius est exclusio alterius. Jurisdiction attaches when the requirements of [section] 452.450 are met, not [section] 452.480."”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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