Nye v. Nye’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 2020
12 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 Nielsen v. Nielsen · Raymond v. Cotner · Application of Gray · Haynes v. Haynes · County of Hall Ex Rel. Wisely v. McDermott
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"While it is true that a parent has a natural right to the custody of his child, the court is not bound as a matter of law to restore a child to a parent under any and all circumstances. The welfare of a child of tender years is paramount to the wishes of the parent where it has formed a natural attachment for persons who have long been in the relation of parents with the parents' approval and consent."”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“`An effective ... forfeiture of parental rights may be effected by the indifference of a parent for a child's welfare over a long period of time.'”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.