Rayburn v. Rayburn’s Empirical Analysis
1960
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 8 later decisions — most recently June 2004
8 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 Baker v. Durham · Loewe v. Shook · Holmes v. Coleman · Cook v. Haynie
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 8 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““. . . A natural parent’s right to custody of a child is paramount to all others unless the parent is proved to be incompetent or unfit. See: Cook v. Haynie, 230 Ark. 174 , 321 S. W. 2d 201 ; Holmes v. Coleman, 195 Ark. 196 , 111 S. W. 2d 474 ; Loewe v. Shook, 171 Ark. 475 , 284 S. W. 726 ; Baker v. Durham, 95 Ark. 355 , 129 S. W. 789 .””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Duncan v. Crowder
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.