Haynes v. Gwin’s Empirical Analysis
1919
Citation profile
8 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 15 later decisions — most recently August 1989
8 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 Bailey v. O'Neal · De Queen & Eastern Railway Co. v. Thornton · Clinton v. Ross · Kansas City Southern Railway Co. v. Morrison · Bispham v. Turner
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 15 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“* * * Where a gift is made to an infant, even by the father himself, and the father takes possession of the property, he holds as naiural guardian, and the possession is the infant’s. * * *”
2 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.