Steele v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1928
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions (2 by the Supreme Court) — most recently April 1982 · most notably Yarborough v. Yarborough (1933), Application of Reed (1950)
2 federal appellate · 26 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 John Haddock v. Harriet Haddock · De la Montanya v. De la Montanya · National Exchange Bank v. Wiley · German Savings Loan Society v. Dora May Dormitzer L B · Rodgers v. Rodgers
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 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It is our conclusion that a decree for divorce rendered in another state awarding the custody of children, when neither defendant nor children were within the jurisdiction of such court, is of no effect so far as it pertains to the awarding of the children.” .”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Bush v. Bush
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.