Hansen v. Hansen’s Empirical Analysis
1969
Citation profile
42 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently October 1987 · most notably Matter of Welfare of Solomon (1980), Marriage of Rinker v. Rinker (1984)
42 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 Fish v. Fish · Schultz v. Schultz · Molto v. Molto · Eisel v. Eisel · Aske v. Aske
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Adultery is not itself enough to establish the unfitness of a mother. As indicated in Reiland v. Reiland, [ 280 Minn. 444 , 160 N.W.2d 30 (1968)], one may be a bad wife but still be a good mother. Thus, the moral unfitness of the mother must be such as to have a direct bearing on the welfare of the child if she is to be deprived of custody.”
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.