Combs v. Gilley’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently May 1989
21 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 Louisville, New Albany & Chicago Railway Co. v. Jones · Duckworth v. Duckworth · Gilmore v. Kitson · Stone v. Stone · Jones v. Darnall
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘Both under the common law and the statutes of this State, the natural parents are entitled to the custody of their minor children, except when they are unsuitable persons to be entrusted with their care, control and education.’ Gilmore v. Kiston (1905), 165 Ind. 402, 406 , 74 N. E. 1083 .””
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.