Latham v. . Ellis’s Empirical Analysis
1895
Citation profile
10 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 10 later decisions — most recently October 1979
10 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 10 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“In North Carolina the father has always been entitled to the custody of his children against the claims of any one except those to whom he may have committed their custody and tuition by deed (sec. 1562 of the Code); or unless his is found to be unfit to keep their charge and custody by reason of his brutal treatment of them or his reckless neglect of their welfare and interest, when their custody will be committed to some proper person on application to the courts.”
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. In Re Fain
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.