In re Bort’s Empirical Analysis
1881
Citation profile
2 district · 55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions (1 by the Supreme Court) — most recently February 2024 · most notably Yarborough v. Yarborough (1933), Ross v. Hoffman (1977)
2 district · 55 state decisions — followed in 24 states
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.
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.
“We do not, however, propose to place our disposition of this case upon the decision of any such question as that. We shall concede, that as between the parents, that decision is a finality, and still we do not feel warranted in sustaining the petition of the plaintiff.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. In Re Erving““We understand the law to be, when the custody of children is the question, that the best interest of the children is the paramount fact. Rights of father and mother sink into insignificance before that. . . .””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Moyer v. Moyer“may interfere at any time and in any way to protect and advance [the child's] welfare and interests.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.