Griffith v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
56 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently August 2018 · most notably Hayes v. City of Wilmington (1956), Blackley v. Blackley (1974)
56 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 McGill v. Town of Lumberton · Butler v. Butler · Story v. . Story · Coley v. . Dalrymple · Gafford v. Phelps
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 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[T]he court's primary concern is the furtherance of the welfare and best interests of the child and its placement in the home environment that will be most conducive to the full development of its physical, mental and moral faculties. All other factors, including visitorial rights of the other applicant, will be deferred or subordinated to these considerations, and if the child's welfare and best interests will be better promoted by granting permission to remove the child from the State, the court should not hesitate to do so."”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“best-fitted to give the child the home-life, care, and supervision that will be most conducive to its wellbeing,”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“In these and other instances the question arises whether the person having custody of a child or to whom custody would other wise be granted is to be tied down permanently to the state which awards custody. The result of the decisions is that where the custodian has a good reason for living in another state and such course is consistent with the welfare of the child, the court will permit such removal or grant custody to the nonresident....”
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.