Ketron v. Ketron’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently May 2017 · most notably Hamilton v. Barrett (1999), Taylor v. Taylor (2001)
48 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 Digby v. Digby · Johnson v. Arledge · Vilas v. Vilas · Scherm v. Scherm · Walker v. Walker
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.
“On this point, the trial court's reasoning is consistent with settled case law reflecting that, unless exceptional circumstances are involved, young children should not be separated from each other by dividing custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mayer v. Mayer
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.