DeGrange v. Kline’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently March 2012
16 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 Hild v. Hild · Ross v. Pick · Dietrich v. Anderson · Melton v. Connolly · Shanbarker v. Dalton
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““At common law, the father was usually entitled to custody and control of his minor children, which arose from his obligations to support, protect, and educate them. Hild v. Hild, 221 Md. 349 , 157 A. 2d 442 ; Ross v. Pick, 199 Md. 341 , 86 A. 2d 463 . In Maryland, the father and mother are the joint natural custodians of their minor children and are equally charged with their support, education and welfare. Code (1967 Repl. Vol.), Article 72A, Section 1. 1 * * * ” (emphasis added)”
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.