Wolfe v. Wolfe’s Empirical Analysis
1951
Citation profile
2 district · 9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 11 later decisions — most recently December 2012
2 district · 9 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 Koon v. Koon · State v. Bagwell · Holloway v. Holloway
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““On the issue as to who should have the custody of the two children, we agree with the Circuit Judge that there is little to choose between the situation presented by the husband and that of the wife. Both are working and both would have to depend upon their close relatives to care for; the children a portion of the time, and nothing appears in the record that would impel the Court to deprive either of the parents of the custody of the children, but for their living separate and apart. This being the situation and the primary consideration being what is best for the children, Koon v. Koon, 203 S. C. 556, 28 S. E. (2d) 89 , due to their tender age, we have reached the conclusion that these children should remain in the custody of their mother for the present at least, and that the respondent should be required to contribute a reasonable amount monthly for their support, in accord with his ability to pay. In the event of changed conditions, or for other valid reasons, the respondent may hereafter apply to the Court of Common Pleas for an order transferring the custody of the children to him, or for any other relief to which he may be entitled.””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““Of course, under the settled law of this State, the husband has the right, acting reasonably, to choose where the ■family shall reside, and when the wife refuses to go with him, she is guilty of desertion. See State v. Bagwell, 125 S. C. 401, 118 S. E. 767 ; Holloway v. Holloway, 203 S. C. 339, 27 S. E. (2d) 457 , and the cases therein cited.””
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.