Phillips v. Phillips’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 32 later decisions — most recently April 1984 · most notably People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey (1947), Belford v. Belford (1947)
30 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 Frazier v. Frazier · Fields v. Fields · Cariens v. Cariens · Meadows v. Meadows · Gedney v. Gedney
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 32 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Aside from all this, however, it appears to us that the law which the Chancellor should have applied in this case when considering the petition for modification of the final decree is clearly stated in the case of Gedney v. Ged ney, 117 Fla. 686 , 158 So. 288, 289 , wherein we said: “ ‘There is no finding that Mathias M. Gedney is not a proper person to have custody and control of his son, Leigh Gedney. Neither is there anything in the record to show that the son, Leigh Gedney, is subjected to- any untoward influences; that he is not properly cared for; that he is not being properly reared; or that his best interest would be in any way served by the proposed change of custody. We therefore think that the order of the learned chancellor changing the custody of Leigh Gedney from his father to his mother was not warranted as a ■matter of law.’ ””
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.