Holt v. Taylor’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently September 1998 · most notably 63 Ark. App. 89 - Thompson v. Thompson (1998), 28 Ark. App. 344 - Riddle v. Riddle (1989)
27 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 Kirby v. Kirby · Wilson v. Wilson · Reynolds v. Tassin · Cheek v. Cheek
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For a court to choose, in a custody case, between the mother and father, the respective personalities of the parents are vital. It is in this realm that personal observation is of inestimable value. As we stated in Wilson v. Wilson, 228 Ark. 789 , 310 S.W. 2d 500 : We know of no type of case wherein the personal observations of the court mean more than in a child custody case.’ ””
3 later decisions 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.