Cooper v. Cooper’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
139 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 139 later decisions — most recently March 2018 · most notably 400 Pa. Super. 174 - Gruber v. Gruber (1990), 119 Ill. 2d 316 - In Re Marriage of Eckert (1988)
139 state decisions — followed in 20 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 144 N.J. Super. 200 - D'Onofrio v. D'Onofrio · D'Onofrio v. D'Onofrio · Auge v. Auge · Jafari v. Jafari · 12 Mass. App. Ct. 812 - Hale v. Hale
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 139 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When the Superior Court has jurisdiction over the custody and maintenance of the minor children of parents divorced, separated or living separate, and such children are natives of this State, or have resided five years within its limits, they shall not be removed out of its jurisdiction against their own consent, if of suitable age to signify the same, nor while under that age without the consent of both parents, unless the court, upon cause shown, shall otherwise order.”
15 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“need not be a substantial advantage but one based on a sincere and genuine desire of the custodial parent to move and a sensible good faith reason for the move.”
12 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]he purpose of the statute is to preserve the rights of the noncustodial parent and the child to maintain and develop their familial relationship.”
6 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Levine v. Bacon · Kantor v. Kantor
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.