Stanton v. Stanton’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

6 state decisions

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 7 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. “Obviously the two provisions of the statute are separable and the Supreme Court of the United States in remanding this matter directed that we decide which age was correct and then legislate a bit on our own and say that the age of majority so chosen for the one sex is also the age of majority for the other sex. 6”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stanton v. Stanton

2. “Legislature of Utah, in an attempt to satisfy the justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, passed an amendment to Section 15-2-1, U.C.A.1953, so that it now reads: 'The period of minority extends in males and females to the age of eighteen years . . ..'”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stanton v. Stanton

3. “Regardless of what a judge may think about equality, his thinking cannot change the facts of life. . . . 9 "To judicially hold that males and females attain their maturity at the same age is to be blind to the biological facts of life.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Stanton v. Stanton