Sachs v. Sachs’s Empirical Analysis
1933
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently October 1952
13 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 People v. Pimentel · Merges v. Merges · McKissick v. McKissick · Rasmussen v. Rasmussen · Leon v. Leon
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘The controlling consideration, paramount above all others, is the welfare of the child. It is not a chattel like pigs, chickens or furniture, to be divided between the divorce litigants on the bases of monetary value; neither is its custody to be made the vehicle for the continuation of their antagonisms and resentments toward each other.’ Merges v. Merges, 94 Or. 246 ( 186 P. 36 ); McKissick v. McKissick, 93 Or. 644 ( 174 P. 721 , 184 P. 272 ).””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Where the wife gets the decree of divorce and there is no showing that she is not a fit and proper person to have the care of her minor son, one and one-half years of age, the custody should be awarded to her.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.