Griffith v. Griffith’s Empirical Analysis
1970
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently May 2003
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 Leithold v. Plass · Welch v. Welch · Meyer v. Meyer · Cook v. Gregg · Fatheree v. Eddleman
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.
“One of these guides [for the trial court in a custody case] is that custody of the children of the marriage should not be divided, i.e., awarding custody of one or more of the children to one parent and one or more of the children to the other parent, except for clear and compelling reasons.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“[t]his appeal involves the proper submission to the jury of special issues regarding the custody of minor children”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re DRLM
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.