Schweitzer v. Kelly’s Empirical Analysis
1941
Citation profile
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 28 later decisions — most recently September 1976 · most notably Adoption of Burton (1956), 189 Cal. App. 2d 245 - Adoption of Thevenin (1961)
3 federal appellate · 2 district · 23 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 Matter of Cozza · Darling v. Darling · Hardesty v. Hardesty · In re Estate of Williams · Younger v. Younger
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 28 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““After the custody of any child has by any judicial decree, been given to the mother, and the father for a period of one year shall willfully fail to pay for the care, support and education of such child when able to do so, then the mother alone may consent to such adoption, but only after the father has been personally served with a copy of a citation.” Civil Code of California, section 224.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
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.