Young v. Young’s Empirical Analysis
1963
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently May 2015
15 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 Laughton v. Laughton · Green v. Perr · Fort v. Fort · Jackson v. Jackson · Davis v. Davis
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In awarding custody of a minor, the court should give paramount consideration to what appears to be for the best interest of the child in respect to its temporal, mental and moral welfare. In a proceeding to modify provisions of an order relating to custody of child, burden of proof is upon applicant to show a substantial change in conditions since entry of order sought to be modified which bear directly upon the welfare and best interest of the child or show that material facts bearing upon welfare and best interest of child were unknown to the court at time order sought to be modified was entered.” (emphasis ours)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“The trial court should [neither] award nor change custody of a child to punish one parent for contemptuous conduct; the court, however, may consider such conduct in determining the welfare of the child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. BILYEU v. BILYEU
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.