Campbell v. Campbell’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently October 2005 · most notably Featherstone v. Brooks (1979), Hammers v. Hammers (1975)
30 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 Mullen v. Mullen · DeMott v. DeMott · Brooks v. Brooks · Phillips v. Kiraly · Florance v. Florance
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[i]n determining what is in the best interest of minor children whose custody is in issue between the parents, we must look to and consider the qualifications and fitness of the parents, their adaptability to the task of caring for the children, their ability to control and direct them, their ages, the ages, sex, and health of the children, their temporal and moral well being, as well as the environment and circumstances of the proposed home and influences likely to be exerted upon the children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Harmon v. Harmon
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.