Ex Parte Will Reeves’s Empirical Analysis
1907
Citation profile
60 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 60 later decisions — most recently June 1972 · most notably Worden v. Worden (1949), Urbach v. Urbach (1937)
60 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.
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 60 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“already a guardian, natural or legal, by controlling the person of the infant and by removing it personally from the custody of its natural or legal guardian, even from the custody of its own parent.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Adams v. Gillis
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.