In re Scarritt’s Empirical Analysis
1882
Citation profile
40 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 40 later decisions — most recently February 2011 · most notably Kelly v. Kelly (1932), Krauthoff v. Krauthoff (1915)
40 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 State v. Richardson · Rust v. Vanvacter · State ex rel. Hodgdon v. Libbey · People ex rel. Nickerson v. · Johnson v. Terry
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 40 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"[I]t is the duty of the court to award the person of the infant to the custody of the [natural parent], unless it is made manifest to the court that the [parent], for some reason, is unfit or incompetent to take charge of it; or unless the welfare of the child itself, for some special or extraordinary reason, demands a different disposition of it, at the hands of the court.””
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.