Chatelain v. Chatelain’s Empirical Analysis
1961
Citation profile
16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 16 later decisions — most recently July 2004
16 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 Butler v. Butler · 12 N.J. Super. 350 - Bruguier v. Bruguier · Colitz v. Gilbert · Lawrence v. Lawrence · Kelley v. Kelley
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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“When it appears that to sustain such a right of visitation would adversely affect the welfare of the child, that right, being subordinate to the child's welfare, must yield thereto.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dupre v. Dupre“[t]he welfare of the child is the paramount consideration in the determination”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Dupre v. Dupre
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.