Sinquefield v. Valentine’s Empirical Analysis
1931
Citation profile
2 federal appellate · 68 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 70 later decisions — most recently October 2018 · most notably Chandler v. Whatley (1939), Ellis v. Social Services Department of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (1980)
2 federal appellate · 68 state decisions — followed in 14 states
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 Meyer v. State of Nebraska · Pierce v. Society of the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Same · Hebert v. State of Louisiana · Coppage v. State · Butler v. Perry
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 70 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“involves the power to give to children such training and education as in the parents' judgment is best for the children, so long as such training and education do not result in, or tend to develop, tendencies or traits dangerous to society.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“privileges long recognized at common law”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
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.