Digirogio v. Digirogio’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently September 2002 · most notably 95 So. 2d 25 - Grant v. Corbitt (1957), 241 Mo. App. 121 - Daugherty v. Nelson (1950)
51 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 Margaret Williamson v. Katherine Osenton · Finlay v. Finlay · White v. White · Dorman v. Friendly · In Re the Appointment of a General Guardian of Hubbard
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"The judgment entered here was evidently entered on the theory that the court had the jurisdiction of the res which was the child but the court in the exercise of its discretion declined to fully exercise such jurisdiction because in the opinion of the court the ends of justice would be better served by leaving it to the California courts to pass on. * * * The trial court seemingly declined to exercise his lawful jurisdiction but in fact actually exercised it by ordering the infant taken from the father and delivered to the mother, with permission to take it to California. Assuming the court had the power, which we do not pass upon, there was an absence of direction to return to California." [Emphasis supplied].”
4 later decisions 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.