Beasley v. Beasley’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2003
14 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 Swift v. Swift · Sawyer v. Bezner · McGarraugh v. McGarraugh · Dunn v. Dunn · Redwine v. Redwine
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In most cases, the custody of minor children of a family that is broken and destroyed by divorce should not be divided except for strong and convincing reasons.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“"Likewise, there should • be no division of minor children between the di vorced parents unless warranted by circumstances of the particular case.””
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.