Evans v. Evans’s Empirical Analysis
1911
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 2005
21 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.
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The custody of this child was entrusted to her mother. Evans [the father] has no voice as to where she shall reside; but, by decree of court, the mother is made the arbiter of such matters.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Taylor
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.