Steele v. Steele’s Empirical Analysis
1982
Citation profile
15
cited by 15 later decisions
5
states following
March 1999
most recently cited
15 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on Marriage of Settle
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“36-6-203. Jurisdiction to make custody determination. — (a) A court of this state which is competent to decide child custody matters has jurisdiction to make a child custody determination by initial or modification decree if: (1) This state: (A) Is the home state of the child at the time of commencement of the proceeding.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Gaddy v. Gaddy
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.