Renfro v. Renfro’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
17 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 17 later decisions — most recently June 1970
17 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 Clark v. Clark · Hager v. Hager · Bowman v. Bowman · Harp v. Harp · Newby v. Newby
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 17 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * The welfare of the child is the determining factor concerned. Clark v. Clark, 298 Ky. 18 , 181 S.W.2d 397 . The Chancellor has a wide discretion in such cases. The exercise of that discretion will not be interfered with except where it is abused. When the evidence is conflicting, much weight is given to the Chancellor’s decision, and after weighing the evidence, the judgment will be reversed only when we are convinced that he was in error. Hager v. Hager, 309 Ky. 803 , 219 S.W.2d 10 ; Newby v. Newby, Ky., 275 S.W.2d 779 .””
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.