Campbell v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently November 1965
14 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 Dawson v. Dawson
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This leaves for determination only the question whether the judgment of the circuit judge rendered in the habeas corpus proceedings and only a few months before, between these same parties in respect to the custody of their child, is res adjudicata upon that issue in the present cause in the chancery court; there being no allegation or proof of any intervening change in facts or conditions.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Mitchell v. Powell
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.