Sango v. Sango’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently October 2003 · most notably Kephart v. Kephart (1951), Reynolds v. Reynolds (1943)
2 federal appellate · 31 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 Wells v. Shriver · Stumpff v. Harper · Sango v. Sango · Midland Valley R. Co. v. Clark · Josey v. Josey
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the provisions of section 507, Compiled Statutes, 1921, the court retains the right at any time, upon its own motion, or the suggestion of anyone interested, to make such reasonable order as may be necessary upon either or both of the parties to a divorce action to provide for the guardianship, custody, support, and education of their minor children, and such orders may be from time to time changed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tinker v. Tinker““When a divorce is granted, the court shall make provision for guardianship, custody, support and education of the minor children of the marriage, and mnv modify or change any order in this respect, whenever circumstances render such change proper, either before or after final judgment in the action.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Tinker v. Tinker
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.