Green v. Sherman’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
2
states following
October 1984
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Helton v. Crawley · Bedolfe v. Bedolfe · Smith v. Smith · York v. York · Burrell v. Burrell
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Visitation or the denial thereof should not be made to appease one parent or punish the other. Such right of visitation should be allowed or denied, according to what is best for the child. Its welfare must receive paramount consideration.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Anthony v. Anthony
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.