Crews v. Sheldon’s Empirical Analysis
1920
Citation profile
12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently December 1962
12 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 Pinney v. Sulzen · Hollinger v. Eldredge · Purdy v. Ernst · Buchanan v. Buchanan · Zeigler v. Dusto
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 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Since the trial court found that the father was a fit person in all respects to have the custody of his infant son, and the mother was dead, the law of the land accords with the law of nature, and there is no just law under the sun which would deny him that custody, no matter how reluctantly an affectionate grandparent may yield thereto.” (Citing cases.) (1. c. 439.)”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. May v. Tenpenny · Jendell v. Dupree
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.