Hall v. Whipple’s Empirical Analysis
1912
Citation profile
25 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently July 1970 · most notably Peacock v. Bradshaw (1946), Jamison v. Gilbert Et Ux. (1913)
25 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 State Ex Rel. Wood v. Deaton · Weir v. Marley
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 25 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““The right to and custody of a minor is a question over which courts of equity have jurisdiction, and an order of the district judge in relation thereto is always subject to modification or change upon a proper showing.””
1 later decision quote this exact passagee.g. Milner v. Gatlin
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.