Dobbs v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1949
Citation profile
4 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 4 later decisions — most recently April 1984
4 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 Jones v. Jones
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 4 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the veteran Chancellor approved, confirmed and adopted the report of the Special Master and entered a modified decree in accordance therewith”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“that if the custody of the child be awarded to her she will cease working and will devote her time and attention to her off-spring”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“the care, custody and control of the child remain with the grandparents”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.