Lewis v. Crowell’s Empirical Analysis
1923
Citation profile
34 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 34 later decisions — most recently May 1998 · most notably Guardianship of Smith (1954), Griggs v. Barnes (1955)
34 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 Neville v. Reed · Potier & McCoy v. Barclay · Jordan v. State · Ex parte Boaz · Simmons v. Bull
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 34 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“putative father of [children born out of wedlock], desiring the custody and control of them, is entitled to it against all but the mother, if competent to care for and suitable to take charge of them.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage““These children are bastards, illegitimate children, and the father is under no legal obligation to support them, in the absence of a statute requiring it.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ex Parte Newsome
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.