Beach v. Bryan’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

15 state decisions

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 16 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.

1. ““® * * * A Court of law or of equity will not absolve the parent from her duty and the child from his filial obligation, unless the conduct of the parent is of such a character as to have forfeited all parental right, and the interests of the child, as well as the interests of the 'State, are best subserved by so doing, save only when the parent, unequivocally and unmistakably, has surrendered parental control in a manner authorized by law.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Tilden-Thurber Corp. v. Prescott

2. “... courts of equity deal with property rights alone, are concerned with questions which affect property, and exercise no jurisdiction in matters of wrong to the person. Bispham’s Principles of Equity (6th Ed.) top page 57. They are concerned only with questions of property and the maintenance of civil rights. Injury to property, whether actual or prospective, is the foundation on which their jurisdiction rests.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Engel ex rel. Engel v. Kenner