Robison v. Wayne Circuit Judges’s Empirical Analysis
1908
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 12 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently June 1959
2 federal appellate · 12 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 Commonwealth v. Fisher · In re Ferrier · Milwaukee Industrial School v. Supervisors of Milwaukee County · People ex rel. O'Connell v. Turner · People ex rel. Mixer v. Board of Supervisors
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 14 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““* * * In a large number of cases considered by the courts of last resort in various states similar legislation has been under consideration. The beneficent character of legislation making provision for the care of unfortunate, delinquent or neglected children has been generally recognized. But a single case has fallen under our notice in which the court has looked with jealousy upon legislation of this character, and that is the case of People ex rel. O’Connell v. Turner, 55 Ill. 280 , a case which, in its essential features, has been discredited by a later decision of the supreme court of Illinois in Petition of Ferrier, 103 Ill. 367 , and which is now chiefly notable as an example of the vigor with which that which is not the law may be stated. But in the following cases, Ex Parte Crouse, 4 Whart. (Pa.) 11; Commonwealth v. Fisher, 213 Pa. 48 ; State v. Brown, 50 Minn. 353 (16 L. R. A. 691) ; Milwaukee Industrial School v. Milwaukee County Sup’rs., 40 Wis. 328 ; Mill v. Brown, 88 P. (Utah) 609, the distinction is noted between cases of this character in which the investigation is into the status or needs of the child, and a case where his offenses are being considered for the purpose of administering punishment. See, also, Hunt v. Wayne Circuit Judges, 142 Mich. 93 . “As was said in State v. Brown: ‘A person committed to the care and custody of a person in charge of an institution of the character of the Minnesota State Reform School is not “punished” nor is he “imprisoned””
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Ex Parte Guisti
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.