Harding v. Harding’s Empirical Analysis
1962
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently March 2010
12 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 Merrill v. Merrill · Munson v. Munson · Rossiter v. Vogel · Rhodes v. Rhodes · CHIRIKOFF ISLAND CATTLE CORPORATION v. Robinette
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“for the care and custody of the minor children of the marriage as it considers just and proper, having due regard to the age and sex of the children, and, unless otherwise manifestly improper, giving the preference to the party not in fault, (emphasis added)”
3 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bass v. Bass · Sheridan v. Sheridan“While, as a general rule the courts give the mother preference in awarding the custody of her children, if she is found to be a fit and proper parent, the rule is contingent upon ‘other things being equal’ and subject to the discretionary power of the court to safeguard the best interests of the children.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Bass v. Bass · Glasgow v. Glasgow“It would have been helpful to this court if [the trial judge] had listed the subsidiary facts upon which he based his general finding that “everything else is not equal” and which impelled him to award the custody of the two older children to the father, but his failure to do so is not fatal to this case. He did state that their education would be best served by placing them in the custody of the father. In spite of the wife’s insistence to the contrary we have no difficulty in gleaning other factors from the record in support of the trial judge’s general finding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. McClain v. McClain
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.