Pullen v. Pullen’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
65 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 65 later decisions — most recently August 1986 · most notably 492 So. 2d 1193 - Bergeron v. Bergeron (1986), Decker v. Landry (1955)
65 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 Brand v. Mornhinveg · State ex rel. Bush v. Trahan · Laplace v. Briere · 40 La. Ann. 286 - Denis v. Gayle · Keegan v. Board of Com'rs
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 65 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A judgment granting to either parent the care and custody of his or her minor child or children, in a decree of divorce, is not irrevocable. It is subject to modification at any time when a change of conditions demands it.””
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.