Schleuter v. Canatsy’s Empirical Analysis
1897
Citation profile
37 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently October 1980 · most notably Adams v. Purtlebaugh (1952), Duckworth v. Duckworth (1932)
37 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 Bryan v. Lyon · Willis v. Bayles · Jones v. Darnall · McGlennan v. Margowski · Joab v. Sheets
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 37 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In a controversy for the custody of a child, whether between the father and mother or between them or either of them and third persons, the welfare of the child is paramount to the claims of either parent, and the order of the court should in all such cases be made with regard alone to the best interests of the child.””
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.