Wilson v. Mitchell’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently April 2004
6 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 Nordin v. Zimmer · CHIRIKOFF ISLAND CATTLE CORPORATION v. Robinette · In Re Kraft's Estate · Monsma v. Williams · Hickey v. Bell
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.
“The trial judge saw and heard the witnesses; we did not. We are required to give due regard to his opportunity to judge the witnesses’ credibility. Under the evidence the judge had a rational basis for concluding that the welfare of [the child] would not be adversely affected if she were given to her mother to rear and that the mother ⅜ ⅜ ⅜ was a fit person to have custody of her child.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bass v. Bass“Findings of fact shall not be set aside unless dearly erroneous, and due re gard shall be given to the opportunity of the trial court to judge the credibility of the witnesses.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bass v. Bass
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.