McFadden v. McFadden’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently February 1983
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.
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`Custody' . . . connotes, among other things, the right of the legal custodian to establish the legal domicile for the child, whereas such right does not abide with the parent who enjoys only the occasional right of visitation. . . .”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“"* * * [A] separation of young children of a given family, should also be avoided when the children can be united in one home under one parent without sacrificing the welfare of the children to the accomplishment of such unity. Nelson on Divorce, supra, § 15.18 p. 194. See Heisler v. Heisler, 152 Or. 691, 695 , 55 P.2d 727 [1936], where a provision for dividing the custody of children between parents was approved. * * *" 206 Or. at 260-261 , 292 P.2d at 799 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. R. v. R.
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.