Simon v. Simon’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1991
22 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 Butler v. Brownlee · Doull v. Wohlschlager · In Re Thompson · Jewett v. Jewett · Missoula Light & Water Co. v. Hughes
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““When a controversy arises between parents over the right to the custody of children, the duty of deciding it is a delicate one, which is lodged with the district court or the judge thereof. The judge hearing oral testimony, in such a controversy has a very superior advantage in determining the same, and his decision ought not to be disturbed except upon a clear showing of abuse of discretion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““We have repeatedly held that custody of minor children should not be changed unless it can be shown that there was; a substantial change in circumstances since the previous order' was entered.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““By what appears to be for the best interests of the child in respect to its temporal and its mental and moral welfare * * * >>”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.