Krauthoff v. Krauthoff’s Empirical Analysis
1915
Citation profile
89 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 89 later decisions — most recently December 2000 · most notably Goldsmith v. Salkey (1938), 223 Mo. App. 834 - Sanders v. Sanders (1929)
89 state decisions — followed in 11 states
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 Wilson v. Elliott · Purinton v. Jamrock · Wilson v. Mitchell · Chapsky v. Wood · State ex rel. Baker v. Bird
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 89 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““Herein we are asked to exercise our jurisdiction as a court of chancery in the adjudication of an exceedingly • difficult, embarrassing, and important question, one that affects the most sacred feelings and reaches the profoundest depths of the human heart— which of two separate parents shall be awarded the custody of their child. It is an unwelcome task, fraught with heavy responsibility. In its performance, however careful and sympathetic we may be, we must walk with heavy tread into the very sanctum sanctorum of parental affection, and, laying hands upon the jewel there enshrined, make such disposition of it as, in our finite wisdom, its best interest may seem to require. It is a painful duty, from which every well-regulated mind must shrink, since its performance has to do, not only with the tender relations of parent and child, but involves the future course of a human life, and perhaps may have an influence upon the destiny of an immortal soul. * * ””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Mosley v. Mosley““... in determining where the custody of a child shall go, the acts and attitude of the parents toward each other, the causes leading to the divorce, their treatment of each other, and similar matters, are all material and admissible in evidence as bearing upon the question of the fitness of the respective parents to have the custody of their child.””
1 later decision quote this exact passage“In the Stetson case (Stetson v. Stetson, 80 Me. 483 , 15 A. 60 ) it is said the awarding of the custody to a parent may result in the removal of the child beyond the limits of the state in any case, since there is no authority, except in cases of crime, to prevent the parent's immediate removal to another state”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Middleton v. Tozer
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.