Morris v. McGregor’s Empirical Analysis
1954
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently December 1976
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 Weir v. Marley · 239 Mo. App. 1036 - Adoption of Mary, Marilyn Shelton and Ernest Wall · State ex rel. Crockett v. Ellison · Wilson v. Wilson · In re Scarritt
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.
“In the absence of evidence to the contrary, the law presumes that the child's welfare will best be served by committing its custody to the parents. That right should never be denied, except for the most cogent reasons, and unless it is clearly shown that both the parents are unqualified.”
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.