Loewe v. Shook’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
35 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 37 later decisions — most recently April 1997 · most notably Stamps v. Rawlins (1988), Stamps v. Rawlins (1988)
35 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 Washaw v. Gimble · Mercantile Trust Co. v. Adams
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.
““There can be no question in the law that, as between a--mother and grandparents, the mother is entitled to the custody of her child, ‘unless incompetent or unfit, 'because of poverty or depravity, to provide the physical comforts and moral training essential to the life and well-being of her child.’ ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Hill v. Neely““If the welfare of the child should at any time in the future be jeopardized by the misconduct of the mother, or for any other reason it becomes necessary for the best interest of the infant to restore its custody to the grandparents, the chancery court always has jurisdiction in such matters.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Armstrong v. Vancil
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.