Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1958
Citation profile
50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 50 later decisions — most recently April 2016 · most notably 3 Ark. App. 270 - Calhoun v. Calhoun (1981), Jones v. Strauser (1979)
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.
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.
““* * * The Chancellor saw and heard the witnesses, and all the parties to the litigation, and evidently saiv the child, as the testimony reflects she was present. We know of no type of case wherein the personal observations of the court mean more than in a child custody case. The trial judge had an opportunity that we do not have, i. e., to observe these litigants and determine from their manner, as well as their testimony, their apparent interest and affection, or lack of affection for the child.””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage“‘ ‘ Our thinking in this matter is influenced to a great extent by the fact that the order is only temporary.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mabry v. Mabry
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.