Shehan v. Shehan’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently June 1968 · most notably Kelly v. Kelly (1919), Burns v. Burns (1917)
50 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.
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the common law, generally, the father was •entitled to the custody of his’infant child; but the more moderu; doctrine requires the chancellor to look to the happiness, welfare, and comfort of the child, and to confide its keeping to that parent whose ability, time, and attention can best be devoted to its care and welfare.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““If the wife have not sufficient estate of her own she may, on a divorce obtained by her, have such allowance out of that of her husband as shall be deemed equitable. . . .””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““The parents should, in all cases, recognize the fact that the statute subordinates their interest in their child to the child’s interest and welfare.” Shehan v. Shehan Case, supra.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Partin v. Partin
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.