White v. White’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
2 district · 47 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 51 later decisions — most recently June 1980 · most notably Perrenoud v. Perrenoud (1971), Lyerla v. Lyerla (1965)
2 district · 47 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 Yarborough v. Yarborough · Wear v. Wear · In re Bort · Martin v. Martin · Kruse v. Kruse
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 51 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . The trial court correctly held that the contest as presented to the court was one between the father and the mother, and that as between them the matters adjudicated by the Oklahoma court in the divorce case were res judicata as to matters determined by the decree in that case, and as of the time it was rendered. The trial court specifically offered to hear evidence as to changed conditions which would authorize or justify a different order with respect to the custody of the child, but, as shown by the entry in the journal, counsel for respondents stated in open court they had no evidence of that character to offer.” (p. 225.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Lyerla v. Lyerla · Price v. Price““1. A degree awarding custody of a minor is not res judicata in the sense generally applicable to judgments. In a proper proceeding the issue of custody may be subsequently inquired into upon the facts and circumstances then existing. “2. Such a decree becomes res judicata concerning matters then determined as of the time the decree was rendered.’’”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Leach v. Leach · Lyerla v. Lyerla““To hold that a prior adjudication awarding custody of a minor child may be treated as a nullity, and be given no consideration whatever would produce intolerable situations. This would be true regardless of whether the prior adjudication was by a court of the same state or by a court of a foreign state. To permit a parent, defeated in a contest for custody of a child, to avoid entirely the effect of the decision against him simply by spiriting the child away into another jurisdiction would make a mockery of judicial decrees.” ( 160 Kan. 32, 44 .)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Price v. Price
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.