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Weiler v. Weiler’s Empirical Analysis

1960

Citation profile

6
cited by 6 later decisions
2
states following
February 1996
most recently cited

6 state decisions

How this case has been cited

Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 1996

6 state decisions

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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 Beckmann v. Beckmann · Robinson v. Field · Leichty v. Kansas City Bridge Co. · 138 W. Va. 388 - Smith v. Smith · Laumeier v. Laumeier

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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

  1. ““It appears logical that the court having jurisdiction over both parents should have jurisdiction to determine and to award the custody of their children. A multiplicity of suits would otherwise result, and the best interest of the children would not thereby be served. This theory finds support in numerous jurisdictions. Smith v. Smith, 138 W.Va. 388 , 76 S.E.2d 253 ; People ex rel. Scanlon v. Ciaravalli, 2 A.D.2d 702 , 152 N.Y.S. 2d 494 ; Talbot v. Talbot, 120 Mont. 167 , 181 P.2d 148 ; McGraw v. McGraw, 266 Ala. 548 , 97 So.2d 897 ; Wilson v. Wilson, 66 Nev. 405 , 212 P.2d 1066 .””
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Kennedy v. Carman
  2. ““The rule has been announced with good authority that a court may not award custody of a child where it has no jurisdiction of the person of the defendant and the child is not within the state.” (Emphasis supplied.)”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage
    e.g. Kennedy v. Carman

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.