Russo Appeal’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently March 2013
23 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 Commonwealth Ex Rel. Parikh v. Parikh · Commonwealth ex rel. Johnson v. Pinder · Commonwealth Ex Rel. Doberstein v. Doberstein
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[T]he rule must yield to the paramount principle that the best interests of each child must be the determining factor.”
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.