Elza v. Elza’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
27 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 27 later decisions — most recently May 2014 · most notably 109 Md. App. 1 - Wagner v. Wagner (1996), Rohrbaugh v. Estate of Stern (1986)
27 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 Duke Power Co. v. Carolina Environmental Study Group, Inc. · Ross v. Hoffman · Davis v. Davis · Police Commissioner v. Dowling · Hild v. Hild
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 27 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[w]hen the appellate court scrutinizes factual findings, the clearly erroneous standard of Rule[ ] ... 1086 applies. If it appears that the chancellor erred as to matters of law, further proceedings in the trial court will ordinarily be required unless the error is determined to be harmless. Finally, when the appellate court views the ultimate conclu sion of the chancellor founded upon sound legal principles and based upon factual findings that are not clearly erroneous, the chancellor’s decision should be disturbed only if there has been a clear- abuse of discretion. [Footnote omitted.]”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Therefore, we hold that the maternal preference doctrine is abolished in this State because it permits an award of custody to be made solely on the basis of the mother’s sex.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Giffin v. Crane
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.