Peterson v. McAuliffe’s Empirical Analysis
1922
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 11 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently September 2006
2 federal appellate · 11 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 People ex rel. O'Connell v. Turner · State ex rel. Olson v. Brown · Robison v. Wayne Circuit Judges
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 13 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““For its protection and the good of the child, the state may, through its courts, place the child in charge of some person or institution for proper training and support. * * * The whole tenor of the act [juvenile court act] indicates that the sole purpose is the welfare of the delinquent as Avell as the dependent or neglected child.” Peterson v. McAuliffe, 151 Minn. 467, 469 , 187 N. W. 226 . (Italics supplied.)”
1 later decision 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.