Kisling v. Allison’s Empirical Analysis
2001
Citation profile
20
cited by 20 later decisions
1
states following
May 2018
most recently cited
20 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Badeaux v. Davis · Cook v. Cobb · Smith v. Smith · Murdock v. Murdock · Shainwald v. Shainwald
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 20 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In South Carolina, in custody matters, the father and mother are in parity as to entitlement to the custody of a child. When analyzing the right to custody as between a father and mother, equanimity is mandated. We place our approbation upon the rule that in South Carolina, there is no preference given to the father or mother in regard to the custody of the child. The parents stand in perfect equipoise as the custody analysis begins.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Clark v. Clark · Brown v. Brown
How this case has been treated — in progress
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