Phillips v. Kiraly’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently June 1994
21 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 Judd v. Van Horn · Williams v. Williams · Sutton v. Menges · Merritt v. Swimley · Lawson v. Lawson
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he strong presumption is that the best interests of the child will be served by placing it in the custody of its natural parents or surviving parent, unless such parents are unfit or unsuitable.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“the welfare of the child is the paramount and controlling consideration in determining who shall have custody of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.