Davis v. Jurney’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 2015
15 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 Mastro Plastics Corp. v. National Labor Relations Board · Boone v. Boone · People ex rel. Kropp v. Shepsky · People ex rel. Portnoy v. Strasser · Bell v. Leonard
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he paramount concern is the child's welfare and all other considerations, including the rights of a parent to a child, must yield to its best interests and well-being.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“represents no new principle of law, but merely reflects the wisdom of human experience that children ordinarily will be best cared for by those bound to them by the ties of nature.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bazemore v. Davis
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.