Sinclair v. Sinclair’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently August 2011
17 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 Zeller v. Zeller · Gardner v. Gardner · Moran v. Moran · Krauss v. Krauss · Jackson v. Jackson
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The import of our holding in Jackson was that religious views alone afford no ground for depriving custody to a parent who is otherwise qualified. Here, the religious beliefs of [Mother] precipitated a course of action on her part of utter disregard and indifference to her children and their activities.” (Emphases added.) Sinclair, 204 Kan. at 244 .”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“The religious zeal of a spouse may be carried to such lengths that domestic harmony is completely disrupted and the legitimate ends of matrimony destroyed, with the result that the life of the complaining spouse is rendered intolerable. (cites omitted). Such a course of conduct, we believe, characterizes behavior amounting to extreme cruelty within the purview of our divorce statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“after [the mother] left home in February 1967 she did not contact the boys for nearly six months, and thereafter no more than three times until the time of the divorce in February 1968.”
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.