Routh v. Routh’s Empirical Analysis
1997
Citation profile
14 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently May 2012
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 Cook v. Cobb · Davenport v. Davenport · Wheeler v. Gill · Fisher v. Miller · Barrett v. Bowser
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.
“There exist no hard and fast rules for determining when to change custody and the totality of the circumstances peculiar to each case constitutes the only scale upon which the ultimate decision can be weighed.”) (emphasis added); see also Aiken v. Nelson, 292 S.C. 400, 403 , 356 S.E.2d 839, 841 (1987) (affirming change of custody”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Housand v. Housand
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.