Forbes v. Forbes’s Empirical Analysis
1983
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2023
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 284 So. 2d 46 - Yates v. Yates · Ayling v. Ayling · 389 So. 2d 454 - Manley v. Manley · Grosz v. Grosz · 23 N.C. App. 307 - Pendergraft v. Pendergraft
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.
“It is well settled that the district court is not bound to accept a stipulation of the parties and that the court's major consideration in determining custody of minor children is the welfare of those children.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Booth v. Booth
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.