Langan v. Langan’s Empirical Analysis
150 F.2d 979 · 1945
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently May 1995
6 federal appellate · 2 district · 10 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 Cromwell v. County of Sac · Commonwealth v. Daven · Joseph Swift v. Donald a McPherson · Boone v. Boone · Melvin v. Melvin
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n California as in the District, the paramount consideration is the welfare of the child, and it is the duty of the court to which the question is presented, to change the custody if the best interests of the child require it.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In re a Minor Child
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.