Stanton v. Stanton’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
6 federal appellate · 22 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions (4 by the Supreme Court) — most recently September 2020 · most notably Califano v. Jobst (1977), Des Vergnes v. Seekonk Water District (1979)
6 federal appellate · 22 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 Craig v. Boren · Stanton v. Stanton · Stanton v. Stanton
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[M]ales and females cannot be treated differently for child-support purposes consistently with the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“As we did in Stanton I, we emphasized that Utah is free to adopt either eighteen or twenty-one as the age of majority for both males and females for child support purposes. The only constraint on its power to choose is the principle set out in Stanton I, and reiterated here, that the two sexes must be treated equally. . [T]he Utah court might elect to adopt age twenty-one as the age of majority . [or] treat both males and females as adults at the younger age. By suggesting these two options, we do not mean to exhaust all other possibilities; we simply mention them to illustrate the fact that our opinion leaves open this state-law issue for the state courts to decide.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent“The period of minority extends in males and females to the age of eighteen years; but all minors obtain their majority by marriage. It is further provided that courts in divorce actions may order support to age 21.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissente.g. Carlson v. Carlson
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.