Bishop v. Bishop’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently May 1960
24 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 Middleton v. Middleton · Workman v. Workman · Nellie Hays v. Edgar Hays · Gribben v. Gribben · Colson v. Colson
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 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Courts generally recognize the right of parents to contract as between themselves or even with third parties with reference to the custody of their children, but equity will not be deprived of its jurisdiction in this respect by any contract or agreement that is subversive of the welfare and best interests of minor children.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Taylor v. Trosper
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.