Albright v. Albright’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently October 1986
19 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 Wilson v. Elliott · Mylius ex rel. Mylius v. Cargill · Evens v. Keller · State v. Popp · In Re Hogue
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The changed circumstances must be substantial, and ‘only a change in circumstances and conditions materially affecting the existing welfare of the minor, occurring since the former adjudication, may properly become the subject of inquiry and the basis of a change in the vaward of the minor’s custody,’ * * * Evens v. Keller, supra [ 35 N.M. 659 , 6 P.2d 200 ].””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Allgood v. Orason““ * * * The welfare of the child is a matter [,] of course [,] of primary interest. A child of tender years, such as this one, its normal place is with its mother. * * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ettinger v. Ettinger
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.