Leverich v. Leverich’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 29 later decisions — most recently March 1971 · most notably Rogich v. Rogich (1956), Peterson v. Peterson (1955)
27 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 Griffin v. Griffin · Wells v. Wells-Crawford · People v. Pimentel · Merges v. Merges · Freeland v. Freeland
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 29 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Whenever a marriage shall be declared void or dissolved, the court shall have power further to decree as follows : (1) For the future care and custody of the minor children of the marriage, as it may deem just and proper, having due regard to the age and sex of such children, and unless otherwise manifestly improper, giving the preference to the party not in fault. ’ ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kloster v. Kloster
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.