Fevig v. Fevig’s Empirical Analysis
1977
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 23 later decisions — most recently July 2012
23 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 Gillikin v. Burbage · Fitzgerald v. Valdez · Greggo v. Wohl · Commonwealth ex rel. Morgan v. Smith · Rounds Bros. v. McDaniel
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 23 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“A person is said to stand in loco parentis when he puts himself in the situation of a lawful parent by assuming the obligations incident to the parental relationship without going through the formalities necessary to a legal adoption... . However, the person must intend to assume toward the child the status of a parent.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“the person must intend to assume toward the child the status of a parent”
1 later decision 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.