Prier v. Lancaster’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
33 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 33 later decisions — most recently June 1975 · most notably St. Clair v. St. Clair (1973), Maston v. Maston (1951)
33 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 Achenbach v. Baker · Kogler v. Kogler
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 33 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The paramount issue in any hearing between parents involving a change in custody of their child is not the desire or wishes of the parents but whether circumstances and conditions have been so altered as to make a change in custody advisable in view of the best over-all interests of the child." (Syl. ¶ 4.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority““This was not a trial but a hearing on a motion. It has been held a motion is not a pleading within the definition of our code, G. S. 1935, 60-703; that a hearing on a motion is not a trial and a motion for new trial is unnecessary to a review of alleged errors committed in a hearing on a motion.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Heilman v. Heilman
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.