Stanback v. Stanback’s Empirical Analysis
1965
Citation profile
55 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 55 later decisions — most recently December 2016 · most notably Blackley v. Blackley (1974), Stanback v. Stanback (1975)
55 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 Griffin v. Griffin · Cox v. Cox · Thomas v. Thomas · Neighbors v. Neighbors · Reece v. Reece
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 55 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“. . There is no evidence the fitness or unfitness of either party had. changed between the hearings. There is no evidence the needs of the boys had changed during that time, or that they were not properly cared for by the father. “A judgment awarding custody is based upon the conditions found to exist at the time it is entered. The judgment is subject to such change as is necessary to make it conform to changed conditions when they occur. . . . . . Judge Gwyn’s finding of changed conditions is not supported by the evidence. Absent evidence of change he was without authority to modify Judge Walker's order. . . .””
4 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.