McBride v. McBride’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
28 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently April 1978 · most notably Skipper v. Skipper (1967), Burleson v. Burleson (1959)
28 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 Sneed v. Sneed · Armstrong v. Green · White v. White · Hammac v. Hammac · Gardiner v. Willis
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"Ordinarily where a child is of such tender age as to require the care and attention that the mother is specially fitted to bestow, the mother rather than the father is the proper custodian unless for some reason she is unfit for the trust." Burleson v. Burleson , 269 Ala. 637 , 114 So.2d 887 (1959).”
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.