4 Utah 2d 273 - Steiger v. Steiger’s Empirical Analysis
1956
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 42 later decisions — most recently May 1992 · most notably Pusey v. Pusey (1986), Jorgensen v. Jorgensen (1979)
40 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 Walton v. Koffman Et Ux. · MacDonald v. MacDonald · Sampsell v. Holt · Cooke v. Cooke · Briggs v. Briggs
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 42 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“This court has stated that a divorced mother has no absolute right to the custody of minor children under U.C.A. 1953, 30-3-10, Sampsell v. Holt, 115 Utah 73 , 202 P.2d 550 , but the policy of our decisions has been to give weight to the view that all things being equal, preference should be given to the mother in awarding custody of a child of tender years, notwithstanding the divorce is granted to the father. Cooke v. Cooke, 67 Utah 371 , 248 P. 83 ; Briggs v. Briggs, 111 Utah 418 , 181 P.2d 223 . And this view is based upon the oft-stated purpose of the award of custody to provide for the child’s best interests and welfare, Walton v. Coffman, 110 Utah 1 , 169 P.2d 97 .”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.