Clinkscales v. Clinkscales’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently July 1981
5 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 Danziger v. Shoob · Williams v. Woolfolk · Wilson v. Commissioners of Bladen County
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““A contrary holding could result in conflict of jurisdiction, be productive of confusion and subversive of orderly procedure. ... If the Circuit Court of Fredericksburg (Virginia) had authority to determine the custody of the child, so would any other court of similar jurisdiction in any county or city into which the minor child is taken. Litigation of the issue might well be repeated over a period of years and result in one court in effect exercising appellate powers over the acts of another court of equal jurisdiction.” Williams v. Woolfolk, 188 Va. 312 , 49 S. E. (2d) 270, at 273 , quoted in Clinkscales v. Clinkscales, supra, 243 S. C. at 380, 134 S. E. (2d) 216 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smollar v. Smollar
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.