Shallcross v. Shallcross’s Empirical Analysis
1909
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently January 1995 · most notably Cummins v. Bird (1929), Renick v. Renick (1933)
34 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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Neither the father nor mother, however, has any right that can be allowed to seriously militate against the welfare of the child. If the father be unfit to have the custody of his child, the courts will promptly declare his rights forfeited. The same is true of the mother, and neither parent is entitled to the custody, if it is manifestly against the child’s welfare. In such a case the custody of the child will be awarded to a third person. If the child has reached years of discretion, its wishes will be considered, but will not always control. As between the parents, the tendency of the courts is to give very young children to the mother, especially in cases of divorce.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Casebolt v. Casebolt
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.