Dawn v. Dawn’s Empirical Analysis
194 F.2d 895 · 1952
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1980
5 federal appellate · 14 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 Boone v. Boone · Cook v. Cook · Church v. Church · Heavrin v. Spicer
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is well established by our decisions that a divorce decree which awards permanent custody of a child to one of the parties is res judicata, as to the question of custody at that time. Unless a showing is made that circumstances and conditions have so changed that the best interests of the child would be served by amending the custodial order, it cannot be amended.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Webb v. Daiger
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.