Rawdin v. Conner’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently December 2001 · most notably Clark v. Wade (2001), 134 Ind. App. 480 - In RE ADOPTION OF BRYANT v. Kurtz (1963)
25 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 Girtman v. Girtman · Chapin v. Cummings · Williams v. Crosby · Waldrup v. Crane · Hill v. Rivers
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Upon the death of the mother to whom custody of a minor child has been awarded by a divorce decree, the prima facie right of custody automatically inures to the father. Chapin v. Cummings, 191 Ga. 408 ( 12 SE2d 312 ); Girtman v. Girtman, 191 Ga. 173 ( 11 SE2d 782 ). In a contest between two parties, both of whom are fit and proper persons, the one having the legal right should prevail. Williams v. Crosby, 118 Ga. 296 ( 45 S. E. 282 ).” Rawdin v. Conner, 210 Ga. 508, 509 ( 81 SE2d 461 ).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Howell v. Gossett
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.