Milligan v. Milligan’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently February 2015
5 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 Adams v. Purtlebaugh
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“The court may modify an order granting or denying visitation rights whenever modification would serve the best interest of the child and it finds that the existing order endangers the child's physical health or impairs his emotional development.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The flexibility allowed thereby promotes a continued spirit of cooperation between the parents and may aid the child in its right to a meaningful relationship of both mother and father. Of course, such orders do not always operate as intended.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chance v. Chance“the visitation might endanger the child's physical health or significantly impair his emotional development.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Chance v. Chance
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.