Blow v. Lottman

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding mother’s disqualification as custodian is prerequisite to award of custody to any other person
• holding mother's disqualification as custodian is prerequisite to award of custody to any other person
• holding mother’s disqualification as custodian is prerequisite to award of custody to any other person
• under common law and modern statutes, state has a right to deprive parent of custody and terminate parental rights under proper circumstances

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

32 cases in this archive cite this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Hanks v. Hanks
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1980-09-03· cited 101×
• Wood v. Beard
  Supreme Court of Louisiana· 1974-03-06· cited 90×
• McDermott v. Dougherty
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2005-03-10· cited 83×
• People in Interest of DK
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1976-09-22· cited 51×
• Mayer v. Mayer
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1986-12-10· cited 49×
• Spaulding v. Spaulding
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1979-05-10· cited 48×
• Christofferson v. McCann
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1975-08-28· cited 35×
• Langerman v. Langerman
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1983-07-27· cited 34×
• Application of Habeck
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1955-03-28· cited 33×
• In Re Adoption of Christofferson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1975-08-28· cited 33×
• In Re the Guardianship of S.M.N.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2010-04-07· cited 32×
• In re B. E.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1979-12-31· cited 29×
• Meldrum v. Novotny
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2002-01-30· cited 25×
• Pribbenow v. Van Sambeek
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1988-01-27· cited 22×
• Odegard v. Odegard
  North Dakota Supreme Court· 1977-10-26· cited 21×
• Sweeney v. Joneson
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1954-02-16· cited 21×
• In Re the Termination of Parental Rights of P.A.M.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1993-09-08· cited 20×
• In Re the Guardianship & Conservatorship for T.H.M.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 2002-01-30· cited 16×
• Matter of Guardianship of Sedelmeier
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1992-10-21· cited 16×
• In re S.L.
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1988-02-10· cited 14×

Cites

8 cases in this archive are cited by this case.

• Stever v. Stever
  California Supreme Court· 1936-04-27· cited 47×
• Stout v. Stout
  Supreme Court of Kansas· 1949-01-22· cited 18×
• White v. Mitcham
  California Court of Appeal· 1948-03-29· cited 15×
• Tschetter v. Ray
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1912-02-14· cited 11×
• Ex parte Summers
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1921-03-10· cited 10×
• Nannestad v. Nannestad
  South Dakota Supreme Court· 1921-06-23· cited 8×
• Tanner v. Tanner
  Ohio Court of Appeals· 1945-06-21· cited 7×
• Heinz v. Heinz
  California Court of Appeal· 1946-02-13· cited 4×