Crowson v. Moseley’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
15 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently September 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 437 So. 2d 1003 - Albright v. Albright · 480 So. 2d 1120 - Carr v. Carr · Ashwell v. Ashwell · 304 Pa. Super. 82 - In Re Custody of Temos · LATHAM, GUARDIAN, ETC. v. Latham
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.
“The present general rule prevailing in jurisdictions throughout this country is that a custody determination is not to punish an offending spouse. The wrongful conduct of a spouse is not a proper consideration unless it bears upon fitness to have the control and custody of the child. And, even if it does have some bearing upon fitness, it should not be carried to any further degree than it is necessary for the child's own interest.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“children at the least are entitled to the company of [the non-custodial parent] two full week-ends a month during the school year, with the visitation to terminate late Sunday afternoon as opposed to Sunday morning, and a five-week period during summer vacation.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“[w]hile not intending in any way to impose our judgment upon him [the chancellor] as to the precise visitation allowed ..., we do hold that the children at least are entitled to the company of their mother ... [for] a five week period during summer vacation.”
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.