Thomas v. Thomas’s Empirical Analysis
1924
Citation profile
67 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 67 later decisions — most recently March 1981 · most notably Chandler v. Whatley (1939), Greene v. Greene (1947)
67 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 Murphree v. Hanson · Coleman v. Coleman · West v. Chandler · Neville v. Reed · Woodruff v. Conley
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 67 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This provision is a recognition of the fact that during the very tender years of the child the husband has not an unqualified right to its custody, even when the wife is at fault in the separation. Mothering of a young child is one of its rights. None but the real mother can meet this high duty in full measure.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Devine
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.