Ex Parte Gilbert’s Empirical Analysis
1950
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1975
19 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 Woodward Iron Co. v. Marbut · McDonald v. Mobile Life Insurance · State v. Bush · Ex Parte Wilkey · Dudley v. Whatley
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The question presented is not who shall have the custody of a minor child already fixed by a valid decree of the court, nor whether the decree may not be clarified on appropriate application to the court. But the question relates to the integrity of that decree, whether it can be altered without due and appropriate pleadings and proof.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. York
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.