Frazier v. Frazier’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 136 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 142 later decisions — most recently March 2017 · most notably People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey (1947), Belford v. Belford (1947)
2 federal appellate · 136 state decisions — followed in 10 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
Relies on Kenner v. Kenner · Weatherton v. Taylor · Cariens v. Cariens · Meadows v. Meadows · Hernandez v. Thomas
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 142 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"No relationship in life should be regarded as more sublime, nor should any inherent right of an individual be esteemed more highly, than that which arises out of the natural relationship of love and affection which normally exists between parent and child * *." [Emphasis supplied].”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howard v. Howard“It is undoubtedly the law of this state that the proper custody of a minor child of divorced parents is a proper subject for judicial consideration at any time by the court which granted the decree of divorce.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“entitled to have and enjoy [child's] society for a reasonably sufficient length of time each year to enable him to inculcate in her mind a spirit of love, affection and respect for her father,”
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.