Raymond v. Geving’s Empirical Analysis
1945
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently September 1985
6 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.
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 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The natural rights of a parent are not conclusive or exclusive, for, as we have held, such rights are to be enforced in the light of the child’s best interests. Nelson v. Ecklund, 68 N.D. 724 , 283 N.W. 273 : The paramount consideration is the child’s welfare. Larson v. Dutton, 43 N.D. 21 , 172 N.W. 869 . In a dispute over the custody of a minor the court is to be guided by the best interests of the child in respect to temporal, mental and moral welfare. Flath v. Nelson, [ 53 N.D. 605 , 207 N.W. 444 ].’’”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Wagner v. Erickson
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.