Stever v. Stever’s Empirical Analysis
1936
Citation profile
64 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 64 later decisions — most recently October 1967 · most notably Roche v. Roche (1944), Thornton v. Raya (1967)
64 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 Crater v. Crater · Campbell v. Wright · 22 Cal. App. 448 - Simmons v. Simmons · 123 Cal. App. 589 - Gavel v. Gavel · 55 Cal. App. 114 - Newby v. Newby
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 64 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““ ‘But before the court can deprive the mother of her right to the minor’s custody and give her into the charge of strangers, there must be a finding that the mother is an unfit person to have the custody of her child. ’ ””
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“It is well settled that, under the provisions of Section 1751 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the father or mother of a minor child under the age of fourteen years, if found by the court competent to discharge the duties of guardianship, is entitled to be appointed guardian in preference to any other person, and that the court must appoint a parent seeking to be appointed, unless it finds such parent incompetent, notwithstanding the judge is of the opinion that the child's health and welfare may be promoted by giving it to another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“... a finding of the court that the mother was competent compels her appointment, notwithstanding her straitened financial condition, and the further fact that apparently the child's material welfare would best be served by giving it to another.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Roche v. Roche
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.