Oliver v. Oliver’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently October 2004 · most notably Davis v. Davis (1977), Hild v. Hild (2001)
50 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 Townsend v. Townsend · Trudeau v. Trudeau · Pangle v. Pangle · Swoyer v. Swoyer · Stimis v. Stimis
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 50 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After reading all of the testimony, he concluded that the custody of the three year old child should be awarded to the mother because it was not established that she was an unfit person to have custody. We are unable to find that the chancellor was clearly wrong in so doing, and we see no reason why the award of custody to the mother should not redound to the best interests of the child. Moreover, since the award of custody was a matter within the sound discretion of the chancellor, we are unable to say that he abused his discretion. The adulterous relationship had ceased, and it is not likely that such illicit conduct will be revived since the former paramour has moved to Michigan and has become interested in marrying another woman out there. The mother having changed her way of life, the chancellor was justified in overlooking her past indiscretions. Trudeau v. Trudeau (1954), 204 Md. 214, 221 , 103 A. 2d 563 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. McDaniel v. McDaniel
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.