Coles v. Coles’s Empirical Analysis
1964
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably In Re Petition for Adoption of J. S. R. (1977), In re D.R.M. (1990)
28 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 · Chapsky v. Wood · Holtsclaw v. Mercer · 11 App. D.C. 392 - Wells v. Wells · Seeley v. Seeley
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[a]bove all things, the paramount consideration is, what will promote the welfare of the child?”
9 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dorsett v. Dorsett · Matter of ABE“‘The atmosphere must be as free of tensions, bitterness and hostility towards the other party as is possible under the circumstances. The child should be taught to love and respect each parent and the opportunities for its mind to be poisoned against either parent should be minimized.’ ” [Id. 204 A.2d at 331 .]”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[T]he law of this jurisdiction does not compel the award of custody of a small child to the mother, although she is a fit custodian, if the trial court on consideration of all the evidence, concludes that the best interests of the child will be served by awarding custody to the father.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bazemore v. Davis
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.