Travis v. Travis’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently January 1989 · most notably Moran v. Moran (1966), Goetz v. Goetz (1957)
40 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 Sharp v. Sharp · White v. White · Swift v. Swift · Petitt v. Lewis · Janney v. Janney
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Of course, it may be said easily that shunting a child back and forth every few days or alternating its custody frequently is, as a matter of law, against the best interests of the child and an abuse of discretion." 163 Kan. at 61 .”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““Appellant, however, does direct our attention to other authorities, which she contends supports the proposition that where she has not been found to be unfit, the custody of a young child should be awarded to her. . We have examined these authorities, but no purpose will be served in analyzing each of them. It is correct to say that unless the mother is shown to be unfit, she may properly be awarded custody of her minor child. (19 C. J. 345; 17 Am. Jur. 517 ) but that premise does not necessarily result in a conclusion that an order giving custody to the father or providing for alternate periods of custody is erroneous.” (p. 58.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bierce v. Hanson
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.