Curless v. Curless’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
18 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 18 later decisions — most recently April 2018
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 McDonald v. E. J. Lavino Co. · Paul v. Paul · American States Insurance v. Hartford Accident & Indemnity Co. · Madrid v. Norton · Eblen v. Eblen
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 18 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“the matter of awarding custody in a divorce proceeding is a comparative proposition wherein the court exercises its best judgment and discretion, and custody will be awarded to the parent according to that which the court believes to be in the best interest and welfare of the children — all without regard to the fault of the divorcing parties. Wilson v. Wilson, Wyo., 473 P.2d 595 (1970).”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Jacobs v. Jacobs“children's wishes are only one factor for the court to consider when awarding custody.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Love v. Love“The conclusion of what preponderates is with the trier of fact.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Avery v. State
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.