Bailes v. Sours’s Empirical Analysis
1986
Citation profile
77 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 77 later decisions — most recently February 2018 · most notably Watkins v. Nelson (2000), In Re Guardianship of Williams (1994)
77 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 Wilkerson v. Wilkerson · Judd v. Van Horn · Forbes v. Haney · Walker v. Brooks · Hepler v. Hepler
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 77 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In all child custody cases, including those between a parent and a non-parent, `the best interests of the child are paramount and form the lodestar for the guidance of the court in determining the dispute.'”
10 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“This appeal involves a child custody dispute between the child’s natural mother . . . and his step-mother .... (Emphasis supplied.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Arnold v. Newberry“upon a showing by clear and convincing evidence that the best interests of the child would be served [by visitation].”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.