Townsend v. Townsend’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently June 2005 · most notably Hild v. Hild (2001), 55 Md. App. 299 - Kennedy v. Kennedy (1983)
59 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 Ross v. Pick · Dietrich v. Anderson · Carter v. Carter · Barnard v. Godfrey · Kartman v. Kartman
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““While the court usually does not deny to a parent the opportunity to visit the child, and occasionally to have temporary custody at suitable times, nevertheless even this comfort may be denied the parent, if the best interest of the child is subserved.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Radford v. Matczuk
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.