Wilson v. Wilson’s Empirical Analysis
1967
Citation profile
39 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 39 later decisions — most recently May 2016 · most notably Matter of Montgomery (1984), Price v. Howard (1997)
39 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 James v. Pretlow · Griffin v. Griffin · Thomas v. Thomas · Kovacs v. Brewer · Holmes v. Sanders
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 39 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he welfare or best interest of the child is always to be treated as the paramount consideration to which even parental love must yield ....”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage“Where there are unusual circumstances and the best interest of the child justifies such action, a court may refuse to award cus tody to either the mother or father and instead award the custody of the child to grandparents or others. There may be occasions where even “a parent’s love must yield to another if after judicial investigation it is found that the best interest of the child is sub-served thereby.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. David N. v. Jason N.
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.