Callaway v. Callaway’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
9 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 9 later decisions — most recently October 2001
9 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 R. L. S. v. J. E. S. · Downing v. Downing · Cook v. Lodes · Meinking v. Meinking
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 9 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]here a mother, who has been denied custody in favor of a non-parent because of her parental immaturity, shows a remarriage, coupled with increased maturity and the desire and apparent ability to be a parent in fact, there should be no doubt such circumstances may be the basis for modification.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Shortt v. Lasswell
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.