Winter v. Crowley’s Empirical Analysis
374 F.2d 317 · 1967
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 16 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 21 later decisions — most recently September 1985
4 federal appellate · 16 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 Pyramid Motor Freight Corp. v. Ispass · Boone v. Boone · Christoffel v. United States · Frank Gunther Et Ux. And Ethel and Oscar Heath v. E. I. Du Pont De Nemours & Company · Bartlett v. Bartlett
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 21 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[t]he welfare of minors is not to be determined by . . . adversary rights as between the parents or other custodians.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Bazemore v. Davis
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.