Moorhead v. Scott’s Empirical Analysis
1972
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 2004
10 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 Pullen v. Pullen · Poliakoff v. Poliakoff · Sharpe v. Sharpe · Forester v. Forester · Tyler v. Guerry
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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Our Court has given little significance to the wishes of a six year old child. On the other hand, our Court has given great weight to the wishes of a child sixteen years of age. It is clear that the wishes of a child of any age may be considered under all the circumstances, but the weight given to those wishes must be dominated by what is best for the welfare of the children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Dodge v. Dodge · Brown v. Brown
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.