Briggs v. Briggs’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently May 1969
9 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 Walton v. Koffman Et Ux. · Baldwin v. Nielson · Bradley v. Miller · Anderson v. Anderson · In Re Olson. Hardy v. Olson Et Ux.
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In any case of separation of husband and wife having minor children, the mother shall be entitled to the care, control and custody of all such children; provided, that if any of such children have attained the age of ten years and are of sound mind, they shall have the privilege of selecting the parent to which they will attach themselves ; provided further,, that if it shall he made to appear to a court of competent jurisdiction that the mother is an immoral, incompetent or otherwise improper person, then the court may award the custody of the children to the father or make such other order as may be just.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Sampsell v. Holt
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.