Gillespie v. Gillespie’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
219 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 219 later decisions — most recently February 2019 · most notably Lewelling v. Lewelling (1990), In Re JAJ (2007)
219 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 Mumma v. Aguirre · Leithold v. Plass · Herrera v. Herrera · Gomez Leon v. State · King v. Skelly
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 219 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“trial court is given wide latitude in determining the best interests of a minor child,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Smith v. Karanja · In Re MMM
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.