Patton v. Patton’s Empirical Analysis
1974
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently July 1995
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.
Relationships
Relies on Gardner v. Gardner · Lyerla v. Lyerla · St. Clair v. St. Clair · Dalton v. Dalton · Irwin v. Irwin
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Thus the real issue is which parent will do a better job of rearing the children and provide the better home environment. . . .” (p. 379.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.