McKenzie v. McKenzie’s Empirical Analysis
1957
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 22 later decisions — most recently December 1987
21 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 Noll v. Noll · Price v. Price · Creasey v. Creasey · Green v. Perr · Rutledge v. Rutledge
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 22 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The fact that either party prevails in a divorce case is not the determining factor in awarding the custody of the children involved. The custody of .children should never be awarded as a means of punishing one parent or rewarding the other. The determinative factor in awarding custody is the welfare of the child. Green v. Perr, Mo.App., 238 S.W.2d 924 ; Ballew v. Ballew, Mo.App., 288 S.W.2d 24 . It is ■quite naturally considered that very young children and particularly girls should be in the custody of their mother unless she is demonstrably unfit to assume their proper care. Davis v. Davis, Mo.App., 254 S.W.2d 270 ; Armstrong v. Armstrong, Mo.App., 185 S.W.2d 845 .””
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.