Searle v. Searle’s Empirical Analysis
1946
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently June 1992 · most notably In Re the Marriage of Murphy (1992), Coulter v. Coulter (1959)
37 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 Wilson v. Mitchell · McMillin v. McMillin · Averch v. Averch · Brock v. Brock · Williams v. Williams
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘[T]o deny to the child an opportunity to know, associate with, love, and be loved by either parent, may be a more serious ill than to refuse it in some part those things which money can buy.’ ” 115 Colo, at 272, 172 P.2d at 840 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““It is elementary that the divorce court may from time to time modify the custodial features of its decree as the circumstances of the parents and the welfare of the child may require * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“In reviewing an order affecting the custody of a child, an appellate court will make every reasonable presumption in favor of the acts of the trial court.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.