Wakefield v. Thorp’s Empirical Analysis
1955
Citation profile
59 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 59 later decisions — most recently May 2003 · most notably Stafford v. Muster (1979), S v. G (1957)
59 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 Hayes v. Hayes · 238 Mo. App. 1011 - Ex Parte De Castro · American Nat. Ins. Co. v. Fox · In re Morgan · 241 Mo. App. 1048 - State Ex Rel. White v. Swink
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 59 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"(U)pon the hearing of such a motion the court may consider not only changed facts and circumstances, but also material facts existing at the time of the decree but unknown to or concealed from the court." (See cases cited.)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“"An order awarding the custody of a minor child, and contained in an unap-pealed decree of divorce, is a final order entitled to the force and effect of a final judgment, unless and until modified by the court making the decree.” 1. c. 471.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“[T]here is no doctrine of right by adverse possession in the custody of children.”
2 later decisions 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.