Anderson v. Anderson’s Empirical Analysis
1975
Citation profile
21 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently October 2004
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 257 So. 2d 530 - Posner v. Posner · Fields v. Fields · Hurst v. Hurst · Stewart v. Stewart · 53 So. 2d 635 - Teel v. Sapp
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“other essential factors being equal, the mother of the infant of tender years should receive prime consideration for custody.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage“providing for equal consideration of the father in the award of custody is not inconsistent with this rule of law historically enunciated by the courts.”
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.