Moreau v. Buchholz’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently September 2011 · most notably Pender v. McKee (1979), Stjernholm v. Mazaheri (1973)
46 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 Graham v. Francis · Webster v. Gaff · Dickson v. Horn · Rudolph v. Rudolph · Wise v. Brocker
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the primary consideration is the welfare of the child, secondly the rights of the parents.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. ERS v. Oda · In Re Petition of JDK“is more often determined by what one does rather than by what he says.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D.P.H. v. J.L.B. · Dph v. Jlb“[a]bandonment is primarily a question of intent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. D.P.H. v. J.L.B. · Dph v. Jlb
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.