Silseth v. Levang’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently February 2001
24 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 12 Md. App. 1 - Sullivan v. Auslaender · Ferguson v. Ferguson · Cornwell v. Cornwell · LaBelle v. LaBelle · Carle v. Carle
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““3. Findings . . . that the best interests of the children of the parties to a divorce action would be served by awarding custody of the children to one party as opposed to the other . are appropriately dealt with on appeal as findings of fact. Consequently, a review of these findings is limited to a determination of whether or not they are ‘clearly erroneous’ within the purview of Rule 52(a), N.D.R.Civ.P.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage““That the Court, after duly considering all of the evidence offered herein, all written reports available with respect to the parties hereto, and having considered the qualifications and attitudes of the parties for the children, the ages of the respective children, the ages of the parents, the occupations of the respective parents, the stability of the individuals and the moral appearance and all other matters that the Court can find which bears upon the welfare of the children, does find that the defendant is a fit and proper person to have the care, custody and control of the minor children of the parties, during their minority, or until further order of the Court, with the right of reasonable visitation by the plaintiff.” [Emphasis added.]”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Matson v. Matson““It is not in the best interests of a child to unnecessarily change custody and bandy the child back and forth between parents. Stability is desirable.” Silseth v. Levang, supra, Syllabus ¶ 4, 214 N.W.2d 361 at 362 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jordana v. Corley
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.