Stirrett v. Stirrett’s Empirical Analysis
1926
Citation profile
43 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently April 2015 · most notably Basolo v. Basolo (1995), Laughton v. Laughton (1953)
43 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 Krauthoff v. Krauthoff · Stetson v. Stetson · Jewett v. Jewett · Wald v. Wald · Freeland v. Freeland
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 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““In the absence of a controlling statute and subject to the rules heretofore mentioned as to the welfare of the child and the rights of the parents, the determination as to whom the custody of the children should be awarded is within the discretion of the court and unless such discretion is abused the judgment will not be disturbed.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Kennison v. Chokie
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.