Edwards v. Edwards’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 1969
most recently cited
10 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Long v. Long
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Under the Statute, Section 510.310, subd. 4 RSMo 1949, V.A.M.S., we are required to ‘review the case upon both the law and the evidence’ and arrive at our own conclusion as to what disposition of the child’s custody will be to its best welfare; ‘due regard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge of the credibility of the witnesses’, and ‘the judgment shall not be set aside unless clearly erroneous’ ”.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Townsend v. Townsend
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.