Conn v. Conn’s Empirical Analysis
1877
Citation profile
1 district · 18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently March 1981
1 district · 18 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 Powell v. Powell · Garner v. Garner · Bush v. Bush · Ryce v. Ryce
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 decree does not deny the right of the children to be supported and educated by their father, nor is he absolved from such obligation by the decree. Such right and obligation are the same as though no divorce had been decreed, or the custody of the children had not been given to the mother.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Johnson v. Latty“[t]he father has the legal right to the custody of his children, unless it is clearly shown that he is unfit ...”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dh v. Jh
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.