Arnold v. Arnold’s Empirical Analysis
1944
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently September 1974 · most notably Armstrong v. Green (1953), Butler v. Butler (1950)
25 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 Murphree v. Hanson · Thomas v. Thomas · Marsh v. Elba Bank & Trust Co. · 16 Ala. App. 297 - Burns v. Shapley · Anonymous
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The bill in the present case does aver that the complainant father was without fault in the matter of the separation; but it does not aver that the mother was at fault, nor that, having regard to her prudence,’ ability, and fitness (to use the language of section 8278 [Code 1940, Tit. 34, § 79]), the mother is not a proper person to have the custody, control, and education of the child of the parties now that they áre living apart. The decree sustaining the demurrer to appellee’s bill will be affirmed, and, in order that appellant may have an opportunity to amend within a time to be appointed by the chancellor, the cause will be remanded.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Porter v. Porter
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.