Stetson v. Stetson’s Empirical Analysis
1888
Citation profile
48 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 48 later decisions — most recently December 1978 · most notably Morrill v. Morrill (1910), Krauthoff v. Krauthoff (1915)
48 state decisions — followed in 20 states
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.
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 48 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“‘ ‘ That the result of the decree may cause the removal of the child beyond the limits of the state, is not, of itself, an objection. This may be the effect in any case. Though the parent receiving the custody may at the time be a resident within the state, there is no authority, except in cases of crime, to prevent an immediate removal from the state. The order, even in this ease, is not that the child shall be removed, though probably such may be the effect of it. “But even though it may be so, the child is not removed from the jurisdiction of the court. That has already attached. The decree is a conditional one, subject to modification and change. The mother takes the child subject to that condition. On any proper process for a change she is bound wherever she may be to take notice, and though she may not personally be within the jurisdiction of the court, the subject-matter is, so that the judgment of the court will be valid and binding upon her, and by the provisions of the constitution of the United States may be enforced against her, though in another state. “In such a case as this the great governing principle for the guidance of the court is the good of the child. It may often be for the best interests of the child that it should be removed from the state for the purposes of education, business, or support. If there is any occasion -for imposing restraint in this, it is competent for the justice presiding to impose it. The authority given by the statute is to be exer”
3 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.