Sandlin v. Sandlin’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 1996
6 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 Ex Parte Wright · McEntire v. McEntire · Piccolo v. Piccolo
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“It is the settled law of this State that an appeal by the unsuccessful party from a decree awarding the custody of minor children does not supersede that decree, whether or not a supersedeas bond in form may have been given, although this Court has capacity to make an order for the custody of the child or children pending such appeal. [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.