West v. Wright

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• divorced parents; mother petitioned to change surname of 11 and 12-year-old children to that of stepfather

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

22 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Sneed v. Sneed
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1978-10-24· cited 88×
• In Re Marriage of Presson
  Illinois Supreme Court· 1984-05-25· cited 41×
• In Re Andrews by and Through Andrews
  Nebraska Supreme Court· 1990-04-26· cited 41×
• D. R. S. v. R. S. H.
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-12-02· cited 32×
• In Re Marriage of Omelson
  Appellate Court of Illinois· 1983-02-18· cited 27×
• Flowers v. Cain
  Supreme Court of Virginia· 1977-09-01· cited 23×
• Carroll Ex Rel. Johnson v. Johnson
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1978-04-24· cited 22×
• Petition of Christjohn
  Superior Court of Pennsylvania· 1981-04-10· cited 20×
• In Re Roberto D.B.
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2007-05-16· cited 20×
• Application of Tubbs
  Supreme Court of Oklahoma· 1980-11-25· cited 19×
• Lassiter-Geers v. Reichenbach
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1985-05-14· cited 17×
• In Re Application of Lone
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1975-05-01· cited 17×
• Rio v. Rio
  New York Supreme Court· 1986-05-21· cited 17×
• Hardy v. Hardy
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1973-07-05· cited 14×
• Schroeder v. Broadfoot
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2002-02-05· cited 14×
• Klein v. Klein
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1977-05-17· cited 6×
• Dorsey v. Tarpley
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2004-05-06· cited 5×
• Lawrence v. Lawrence
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 1988-03-08· cited 4×
• Drs v. Rsh
  Indiana Court of Appeals· 1980-12-02· cited 1×
• Jeanette Hill v. Michael Lester Hill
  Court of Appeals of Tennessee· 2011-08-24

Cites

12 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Mark v. Kahn
  Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 1956-02-03· cited 67×
• Lazow v. Lazow
  District Court of Appeal of Florida· 1962-12-04· cited 39×
• Clinton v. Morrow
  Supreme Court of Arkansas· 1952-04-14· cited 34×
• Sobel v. Sobel
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1957-09-10· cited 30×
• Kay v. Kay
  Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court· 1953-05-06· cited 28×
• In re Fein
  Civil Court of the City of New York· 1966-11-10· cited 16×
• In re Yessner
  Civil Court of the City of New York· 1969-10-07· cited 16×
• Worms v. Worms
  California Court of Appeal· 1967-06-28· cited 14×
• Degerberg v. McCormick
  Court of Chancery of Delaware· 1963-01-16· cited 13×
• W. v. H.
  New Jersey Superior Court App Division· 1968-09-18· cited 10×
• Watson v. Dockett
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1962-06-08· cited 6×
• In re Keach
  New York County Courts· 1966-02-23· cited 3×