Scott v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently May 1993 · most notably Krasnow v. Krasnow (1953), Adams v. Purtlebaugh (1952)
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 People of State of New York Halvey v. Halvey · Finlay v. Finlay · Sampsell v. Superior Court · Duckworth v. Duckworth · Berkshire v. Caley
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.
“"Under such circumstances it seems to be the rule in Indiana that in a habeas corpus action when it is shown that a change in conditions has occurred since the original judgment awarding custody of children in a divorce proceeding was rendered in a sister state, it is a duty of the court , of the forum to consider such changed conditions in determining that which is for the best interest of the children if the court of the state rendering the decree could do so. The strict legal rights of the parents, under such conditions must yield to the welfare of the children.” Scott v. Scott, supra, p. 536.”
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.