Guber v. Mathias’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

3 state decisions

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. ““Welfare of the child is always an issue in this class of cases. Rights of parents and claims of grandparents must all yield, under proper circumstances, to the best interest of the child, and in a habeas corpus proceeding the court may award custody accordingly.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. New York Foundling Hospital v. Harrington