Baier v. Baier’s Empirical Analysis
1943
Citation profile
10
cited by 10 later decisions
1
states following
October 1951
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Barnes v. Long · Sachs v. Sachs · White v. White · McKay v. McKay · Borigo v. Borigo
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In divorce proceedings, children of tender years, more especially girl children, should be awarded into the custody of their mother, notwithstanding the fact that she is the losing party, unless she is morally unfit.” (Italics ours.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Goldson v. Goldson
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.