Vetter v. Goff’s Empirical Analysis
1948
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently January 1995
12 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 Thompson v. Childers · Bishop v. Bishop · Staggs v. Sparks · Fraze v. Grundy · Taylor v. Trosper
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Such an agreement is valid in this state, Thompson v. Childers, 231 Ky. 179 , 21 S. W. 2d 247 , but, at most, only deprives the parent of his superior statutory right to custody and leaves for determination by a court of equity what is for the best interests of the child.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.