Young v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
13 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently March 2001
13 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 Fortson v. Fortson · Elders v. Elders · Peeples v. Newman · Moody v. Moody · Fortson v. Fortson
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he trial judge is . . . restricted to the evidence and is unauthorized to change the custody where there is no evidence to show new and material conditions that affect the welfare of the child. (Cit.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The award of custody of a child of the parties in a divorce decree is conclusive unless there have been subsequently to the decree new and material changes in the conditions and circumstances substantially affecting the interest and welfare of the child,” (Young v. Young, 216 Ga. 521, 522 ( 118 SE2d 82 )), this court has recently stated that”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kohler v. Kromer
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.