Hollinger v. Eldredge’s Empirical Analysis
1913
Citation profile
19 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 19 later decisions — most recently May 1961
19 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 Swarens v. Swarens
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 19 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right of a parent to the custody of his child will often yield to considerations of its welfare. But special circumstances must exist in order to open the way to an inquiry in that regard. A court may not assume to disturb normal family relations merely upon a belief that it can thereby improve existing conditions. . . . The natural rights of the father were not completely annulled by the order in the divorce proceedings awarding the custody of the child to the mother; they were suspended for the time being, but they were revived in full force by the mother’s death.” (p. 78.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Pinney v. Sulzen
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.