Curtis v. Curtis’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
5 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently April 1955
5 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 Koontz v. Koontz
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 5 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The mother’s right to the child must depend on her present conduct, and we find nothing in the evidence that impugns her character for morality and decency occurring since her marriage with the appellant.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Ustler v. Ustler
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.