Digby v. Digby’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
88 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 90 later decisions — most recently September 2023 · most notably Hamilton v. Barrett (1999), Alphin v. Alphin (2005)
88 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 Moore v. Smith · Minton v. McGowan · Hampton v. Hampton · Marr v. Marr · Bond v. Rich
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 90 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“While this Court considers the evidence on a chancery appeal de novo, it will not reverse the chancellor unless it is shown that the lower court decision is clearly contrary to a preponderance of the evidence. Particularly where the credibility of witnesses appearing before the chancellor is concerned, this Court attaches substantial weight to the chancellor’s findings on material issues of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“DeCroo, 266 Ark. at 277 , 583 S.W.2d at 82 . The primary consideration in awarding the custody of children is the welfare and best interest of the children involved. Other considerations are secondary. Digby v. Digby, 263 Ark. 813 , 567 S.W.2d 290 (1978). Appellant basically argues that appellee has”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.