Clinton v. Morrow’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
51 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 53 later decisions — most recently August 2001 · most notably Mark v. Kahn (1956), Bradley v. Hall (1952)
51 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 N.J. Super. 350 - Bruguier v. Bruguier · In re Cohn · In re Epstein · 83 Ga. App. 280 - Binford v. Reid · Nitzberg v. Board of Education
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 53 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ * * * In view of the natural and commendable desire of the father to have his children bear and perpetuate his name, this discretion should be exercised with the utmost caution and such use or change should not be sanctioned unless it is for the best interest of the children. * * * ””
2 later decisions 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.