Bush v. Bush’s Empirical Analysis
1947
Citation profile
11
cited by 11 later decisions
1
states following
May 1962
most recently cited
11 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Foster v. Foster · Bancroft v. Bancroft · Bancroft v. Bancroft · 48 Cal. App. 2d 404 - Phillips v. Phillips · 72 Cal. App. 2d 487 - Bush v. Bush
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 11 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mother’s position on appeal is that since the evidence shows that both parents are equally fit and proper persons and each has a suitable home it was an abuse of the court’s discretion to award custody of a boy of tender years to the father. In taking this position the mother relies upon that portion of section 138, Civil Code, which provides that ‘other things being equal, if the child is of tender years, it should be given to the mother. ’”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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.