Jackson v. Jackson’s Empirical Analysis
1921
Citation profile
31 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 31 later decisions — most recently May 1968 · most notably Kirby v. Kirby (1934), Oliphant v. Oliphant (1928)
31 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 Weatherton v. Taylor · Nelson v. Nelson
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 31 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Where the husband and wife are living apart, there may be an adjudication of the court as to their power, rights and duties with respect to the persons and property of their unmarried minor children. In such cases there should be no preference between the husband and wife, but the welfare of the child must be considered first in determining the custody of such child, or the control of its property * *”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hamilton v. Anderson
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.