Goff v. Goff’s Empirical Analysis
1959
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently August 2005
4 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 Rallihan v. Motschmann · Casebolt v. Casebolt
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Our consideration must be confined to the record that is presented to us, and upon it we can reach no conclusion other than that Kathryn is an unfit person to have custody of the children, and that the court erred in not transferring custody to Kermit. There is no evidence to show that Kermit is not a suitable person to have custody of the children, and since as a parent he has a prima facie statutory right to custody, under KRS 405.020, he does not have the burden of proving his suitability." (Emphasis ours).”
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.