Cook v. Cobb’s Empirical Analysis
1978
Citation profile
68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 68 later decisions — most recently November 2011 · most notably Aiken County Department of Social Services v. Wilcox (1991), Moore v. Moore (1989)
68 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 Prince v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts · Davenport v. Davenport · Koon v. Koon · Pullen v. Pullen · Jones v. Ard
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 68 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he welfare of the child and what is in his/her best interest is the primary, paramount and controlling consideration of the court in all child custody controversies.”
2 later decisions 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.