Stroman v. Williams’s Empirical Analysis
1987
Citation profile
52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 52 later decisions — most recently August 2011 · most notably Woodall v. Woodall (1996), Boswell v. Boswell (1998)
52 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 Bezio v. Patenaude · Davenport v. Davenport · 255 Cal. App. 2d 523 - Nadler v. Superior Court · Estes v. Estes · A. v. A.
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 52 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“... we believe the proper rule to be that homosexuality standing alone, without any adverse effect on the welfare of the child does not render the homosexual parent unfit as a matter of law to have custody of the child.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Boswell v. Boswell · Ga v. Da
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.