Greene v. Greene’s Empirical Analysis
1968
Citation profile
20 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 20 later decisions — most recently September 2005
20 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 Hayn v. Hayn · Gardner v. Gardner · Hoppe v. Hoppe · Moran v. Moran · Preston v. Preston
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.
““A child’s preference in custody matters may, of course, be considered as an aid to the court in making a proper order. [Citation omitted.] Such preference, however, is always subordinate to the over-all best interests and welfare of the child. Thus, when there are objective factors affecting the child’s welfare that are contrary to his wishes, the latter must yield to the former. [Citation omitted.]””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority““When the issue of custody is between parents, the paramount consideration of the court is the best interests and welfare of the children, and in the absence of abuse of sound judicial discretion, the trial court’s judgment determining the issue will not be disturbed on appeal. [Citations] Although from the facts disclosed here we might not have reached the same conclusion as that of the trial court had we been determining the question initially, we are unable to say there was insufficient evidence to sustain the court’s judgment, or that the record affirmatively shows there was a manifest abuse of discretion. We have only the printed page, whereas the trial court, in considering the best interests of the children, had the advantage of seeing the witnesses and parties, observing their demeanor, assessing the character of each parent and the nature and quality of their affection and feeling for the children. If, as time progresses, circumstances require a change or modification of the custody order, the trial court has continuing jurisdiction to act pursuant to K. S. A. 1965 [now 1967] Supp. 60-1610 (a).” (p. 704.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McClaren v. McClaren
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.